“If I can achieve all of this interest in grayscale, why would I complicate it?” – Michael KesslerĪrtists throughout modern art history have pushed the boundaries of creativity through monochromatic art. It challenges an artist to create a painting of great interest using composition, textures, tonality, line, and form alone. Limiting oneself to a single color, can spark this same kind of creativity and encourage an artist to explore other intriguing design elements. While the shades of the color can be different, the painting contains only one main base color. A monochromatic painting is one created using only one color or hue. Monochromatic art presents such a creative challenge. Sometimes working within a challenge, even one self-imposed, can lead to more creativity and freedom of expression than absolutely no challenges whatsoever. This is because creativity craves limitations. But what if someone handed you that sheet of paper and asked you to paint a blue dog or write a haiku… perhaps creation would be made just a little bit easier. Have you ever felt frozen in front of a blank page? If you were given a blank piece of paper and were asked to create something, do you know exactly what you would create or might you feel paralyzed by the freedom of the unspecified request? Sometimes, too much freedom can be paralyzing in this way.
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