First One, Then The Other

I used the first drawing shown in the previous post as a catalyst for this second one in the left panel. I positioned a second sheet to the left of the first, and started off again, one color leading to another, one shape after another. In this drawing, I wanted the black to be less of a "background" and more of an active, integral foreground component. Whereas I cannot completely agree with Renoir's statement that "black is the queen of all color", I wanted to work toward balancing black against the others. I am not completely pleased with how the black works here, it is still lingering "behind" and may use a more monochrome palette in future drawings until the balance of foreground and background is to my liking. Nonetheless, I am quite pleased with working abstractly, as the pure joy of drawing colors and shapes, unweighted by the pressure of an representational image, is exhilarating.