During this phase I wanted to understand more deeply how colours related to one another. This was really a painting experiment.
I decided to use no more than two initial colours for each painting; I then commenced to paint freely with the first colour on a blank canvas using different intensities of the first colour. I did this without any concept in mind of what I wanted to paint. Following the application of the first colour, I separately applied the second colour onto the canvas in much the same way.
By using limited key colours in this way, I wanted to see what might be naturally created. I wanted to see if certain colours had characteristics that resulted in specific forms. I also wanted to see how my intuition responded to the chosen colours and the painting that was created in this way.
It was fun and the results were unexpected. For example: when I combined ultramarine blue with crimson; a mystical character that looked a little like Krishna on a horse emerged from the canvas; when I combined phalo green with purple a large fish emerged and I later added crimson red that looked like coral.
Using this method was artistically freeing and I enjoyed the process and the paintings created.