Joseph's shiny new sketchbook

[JosephCow]

I like the latest study a lot. It sounds to me what you are describing is a form of hue fatigue. I think there is some technique you can use to "refresh" your sense of the colors of your subject, but im not sure what kind.

Looking good anyway! Keep up the good work!

Thanks. Yeah it is, it's hard to translate nature to screen, even more so than nature to paper. There's not much fixed context. 'white' on a computer screen could be literally anything depending on the brightness. So like in my painting program everything is pretty dark grey, so if I paint something 'white' it looks white until I see it next to the brightest that my computer can go. But on a dark background it actually looks more like what I intended.

At the same time though, I wouldn't want to use the full range because the value relationships aren't super high contrast. So it's gotta compromise on the brightness if I'm going to hit the right colors and values.
I think what I'd like to try is to keep swatches of white and black on screen so that I can keep it more in context with the full range.