Limited Color Palette and Referencing Classic Works in Art History

Limited Color Palette and Referencing Classic Works in Art History

A student works on adding color and value to her finished illustration of a fantasy creature. Students were taught to create a sample palette,on a separate piece of paper, just like professional illustrators often use, in order to test out blending and mixing various colored pencils before applying these to their final artwork. This student’s chose a limited color palette from a classic artwork by Salvador Dali, “Persistence of Memory”.