Watercolor abstract painting ideas with simple shapes, dots, modern marks, and layered blue green mixed media texture.

Color Palette Play in My Art Journal | Dominant Color Experiment + Texture

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In today’s session, I’m back in my Bare Spine Beauty journal and continuing to fill the pages with layered abstract paintings inspired by the Color Cube.

I’m using one palette across multiple pages, but changing the dominant color in each abstract to see how the same colors behave when I let a different one take the lead. To add more movement and interest in the composition, I tape off different sizes and shapes so the abstracts land differently across the spread.

I’m layering Holbein gouache, Faber-Castell Black Collection pencils, Kuretake silver ink in a fine line bottle, a Pandafly white pen, and Posca pens for lots of mark making, texture, and little details that bring the pages to life.

If you love art journaling, color palette play, and mixed media layering, come paint along with me and let’s explore how a limited palette can create totally different moods on the page.

Check out the Bare Spine Beauty Art Journal workshop on my site: https://2lilowls.com/product/bare-spine-beauty-master-the-art-of-coptic-bookbinding/

And on skillshare: https://skl.sh/4hE63VZ

Looking for the supplies I used? I’ve listed all my favorite and most-used materials on one easy-to-update page here: https://2lilowls.com/favorite-supplies-for-mixed-media-abstract-art/

(Some of the links are affiliate links. If you use my link, I get a small commission, which will go toward my art supplies and to support this channel! I appreciate your support!!)

Note: I don’t list individual supply links on every post any longer, simply because keeping up with that for each video or project took more time than I have. Instead, I’ve created one easy-to-browse page where I’ve listed all my favorite and most-used art supplies. It’s always up to date, and a great place to find what I’m working with most often.

**Facebook Group for Art Peeps: https://www.facebook.com/groups/deniselovecreativecommunity

Open Bare Spine Beauty art journal with two abstract mixed media paintings using ochre, gray, brown, silver ink, pencil marks, and white details.
Close-up of an abstract art journal page with ochre stripes, gray gouache washes, black dots, white marks, and metallic texture.
Close-up of a small abstract art journal painting with gray and brown washes, ochre shapes, white pen marks, and silver dots.
Detailed abstract mixed media painting with warm ochre blocks, gray washes, black dots, silver lines, white marks, and layered texture.
Close-up of abstract art journal texture with silver ink marks, blue pencil lines, gray gouache washes, and warm ochre accents.
Open art journal on a studio table with watercolor palette, pens, gouache, pencils, and two abstract mixed media paintings.

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