Borrowing Colors

Artists often copy other artists’ work to learn from them.  I remember copying drawings from my favorite comic books and trying to draw like them, but never thought to copy the colors they used.

I prepared a picture of a frog and an anglerfish for this one.  The assignment was to use the colors of other artists to complete this picture. 

For the first and second ones I borrowed colors from Mary Blair, a concept illustrator from Disney. The third one was from Utagawa Hiroshige, a Japanese woodprint artist.  They were both well known for their unique use of colors.  

Reference:

Magic of Mary Blair     www.magicofmaryblair.com
Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige     www.artelino.com/articles/ukiyo-e.asp