Sky Blue Bin

10/17/24 Maple Leaf neighborhood

Last year I took an urban sketching workshop from Ellie Doughty on Domestika. It was a fun and inspiring look at how she uses a limited color palette with mixed media. One tip that stays with me (and that I mentioned in this post) is her strategy for keeping a color palette cohesive: If she uses a color, she always tries to use it in at least one more spot so that its use will not seem random.

That useful tip popped into my head as I was finishing up this sketch. After coloring the recycle bin blue, I realized it was my only use of blue. Duh – the sky! No randomness here.