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Silver Fox | “Violet Wolf”

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Painting of a purple wolf face with yellow eyes and a color scale 8 boxes tall that goes from violet at the top to yellow at the bottom with toned greys in the middle.

Silver Fox, "Violet Wolf," Fall 2021, acrylic paint, Bristol paper, paint brushes, 10 x 10"

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This assignment was about toning vivid colors down and making a neutral grey by mixing complements, rather than just using black and white. I mixed up a violet with red and blue and white acrylic paints, and painted a portrait of a wolf in tones and tints of this purple. I finished it with bright yellow eyes.

Pictured is a Native American patterned coyote carrying a stick of fire, while crossing over a diamond which delineates the daytime versus the night, with Monument Valley rock formations in the distance in a monochromatic yellow-orange hue.

Ashley Barnes | “Trickster Coyote Under the Full Scorpio Moon”

A painting of a blue shadowed arctic fox sniffs the ground, with a background of a cloudy reddish violet sky and glowing yellow setting sun.

Silver Fox | “Arctic Fox”