No Black or White study with Yellow

Decided to remove the use of black or white from my palette Monday night and make my key focus color yellow. I wanted to remove my dependence on black and white to see if I could pull colors together and make them work. So far... not so much...

I started with yellow - adding orange and red straight from the tube and in small amounts, mixed in with the yellow. Purple comes in as the compliment I can use to make a brown to help separate colors, but then things went off track when I added green and blue - just too many colors! Near the end of the night I ended up with the orange fighting too much for attention. Oh well, I knew that was happening and I let it happen. I think I'll do a "no" black or white study with blue tonight and see what happens.

Color palette included:
Primary Yellow
Cadmium Orange Hue
Naphthol Crimson
Primary Blue
Deep Violet
Phthalocyanine Green

All photos are Liquitex Acrylic paint shot with a Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone.

No Black or White study with Yellow - February 17, 2014 (18x24)