🎨 Weekend Mini Challenge: Blind Color Grab (Patreon)

The Prompt

What happens when you let chance choose your palette?

For this weekend challenge, you'll create a painting using colors selected completely at random! This exercise is all about stepping outside your comfort zone, exploring unexpected color combinations, and discovering new possibilities.

You may be surprised by how beautiful—or delightfully strange—your painting turns out!

Instructions

Write the names of colors on small strips of paper. Include as many colors as you'd like. (Examples: Red, Crimson, Yellow Ochre, Cerulean Blue, Turquoise, Violet, Burnt Sienna, Lime Green, Pink, Black, White, etc.)

Fold the papers and place them in a jar, bowl, or container.

Without looking, randomly draw 3–5 color names.

These are the colors you must use in your painting.

You may mix your chosen colors to create additional shades, tints, and tones, but try to keep the painting centered around your randomly selected palette.

Create any subject you like:

Landscape

Floral

Animal

Abstract

Still Life

Fantasy Scene

Share your finished artwork and tell us:

Which colors you drew

What surprised you most about working with them

Whether you'd use this palette again

Why This Exercise Matters

As artists, we often reach for the same favorite colors without realizing it. Limiting yourself to a random palette encourages experimentation and creative problem-solving.

This challenge helps you:

✨ Discover unexpected color combinations

✨ Strengthen your understanding of color relationships

✨ Build confidence working outside your comfort zone

✨ Develop flexibility and creativity

✨ Reduce perfectionism and encourage play

Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen when we stop planning and start exploring. Let chance be your color coach this weekend and see where it takes you!