What to do with all those challenge painting studies????

3D Paintings

This is one way I decided to do my Challenge Trees....those 4" x 3" studies just meant having those small little paintings with nothing to do with them, but to paste them on card fronts (been there, done that). These I can sell or send out as greeting cards.  I experimented and have 3 different ways to fold them.
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Below you can see my 3D painting in process and you can see my Color String (the blue to yellow-green). Mixing a color string  helps me have ready my tree values.

(I also rubber stamped words...you all know how I love adding words...onto the paper first. It wasn't water proof, so it bled some...which I liked.

What is and how to mix a Color String?

A color string is a line of paint  on your palette that you have premixed with different values. 

Start with a color and you step-by-step make that color either lighter or darker or step-by-step make that original color into another color.

I did a "2-way" string??? I started with  Blue in the middle, then I  added  it's complementary, Red, to darken the blue going in one direction..... Then going from the blue the opposite direction, I added yellow to make the blue more green and lighter. Now I had at least 3 needed values (light, medium and dark). Usually a color string starts with one color and goes in one direction to either lighter, darker or into another color.

Beginners tend to mix their paint as they go...usually guessing along the way. Premixing your values helps you get those...3 needed values, color unity, depth and a smaller color palette.

Enjoy!!!