I am having so much fun exploring the color palettes of other artists. I flipped through my Art History books and was drawn to colors in Leon Bakst's stage design for Scheherazade. He was merging Art Nouveau line with inspiration he found in the Orient. I struggled at first with only focusing on color and kept finding myself abstracting the composition or getting stuck in color shapes from the original image. By the third one though I finally started letting go and I'm excited to see what happens as I try more of these color studies.

I can't wait for these three mini works to dry so I can go back into them with other details and art media.

 

Once they were dry, I added details in black Sharpie, Gold Sharpie, gold and orange colored pencil. I love how they turned out. I decided to treat each as its own piece rather than focus too much on similar additional marks to unity them as a collection. 

Much like Denise found in her sample artworks, I loved them so much more after removing the tape despite some reservations about the additions I had made prior to that final step.