Another Compare and Contrast - for Color!

Using the same stamps, I decided to make a more coffee-ish image making brown-ish color beams and an ochre gold burlap bag.  After the fact, I did realize that photographing these pages on a hot pink background is a tremendous distraction, but if you can focus on the image, itself, that will help!

One of the advantages of using a pre-made stamp is the opportunity to do a quick compare and contrast and make decisions about colors.  The first set of pages below includes a purple burlap bag (in both the large and the small images, ) but the beans are a pale green.....or unroasted.  I am not sure that was my intent at the time I was adding color, but let's go with that notion.

Although the burlap below is now blue, to better coordinate with the background color on these two pages, the beans are just a more intense tone of green - with some blue in it.....not as suggestive of unroasted beans, but ....in the ballpark.  

It's fun to go back and forth between these three page spreads and look at the colors of each of the bean bag images.  Since each image is exactly the same, that is not a variable to contribute to the decision-making process! 

Of course the disadvantage of using any pre-made stamp like this is that it is not original work - well, at least not MY original work.  I just can't seem myself doing much of this particular type of image work, but it is an entertaining diversion occasionally.