Bogdan Shiptenko

How i handle the use of colour in my artworks

Shade combinations come to mind as I write, as I work. In watercolor works I use different colors, I like to experiment with mixing colors during painting, it happens that I think over the color palette in advance, but still I often improvise color relationships already in the work itself.

In advance, I can think over whether the painting will be color or black and white. When I write in B&W, it is important for me to observe the proportionality of shades: white, gray and black.

Of course, I also have favorite shades and colors. There are a lot of them and it is difficult to divide them into any specific ones, but in watercolor I like to use ceruleum blue, emerald green, payne gray and light cadmium red.