Acrylic painting on 8-inch x 10-inch board. An article by Susan Abbott inspired this painting. Her report suggests painting in two colors. She talked about the value of using just two colors, a brown and a blue. In my case, I used burnt sienna & ultramarine blue and a little white (Titanium white). One of her challenges was to paint using just two colors, Edward Hopper’s sailing painting.

Here is a page from her article showing the challenge.

Page from Susan Abbott’s article in Artists Magazine, December 2023

Beneath is my painting using her suggestion of only two colors.