how do you choose colors for your pieces and designs, despite some having very bright primary colors theyre not an eyesore in the slightest
I really can't speak to exactly how I do it - as much as I try my best to understand my own process better these days and rely less on muscle memory or instinctual moves I can't replicate or explain (Which often crystallize into bad habits and stunt development) very often my colour choices just Look Right at a certain point and I move on. Primaries though are an obsession lately, and deep blue especially - years ago at the Centre Pompidou in Paris I visited an exhibit of Yves Klein sculpture and the ultra-intense Klein blue "pigment" sculptural forms changed my understanding of the value of deep saturation and the way colour can alter perspective. It feels like a very cheap trick in some ways because it's so simple, but a mundane subject with an extraordinary hue can immediately alter the viewer's understanding, shifting something into the territory of symbol, dream, surreality or religious significance. A horse's head rendered in solid "blue matter" takes on a totally different vibe. That's a little bit of a detour but uh.. i'm trying to figure it out lol. My firm belief though is that almost any colour combination can work if done with confidence and if you "lean into it" correctly, but I do loathe "naturalistic" colours. I think the dullest thing you can do is make something The Colour It Is In Reality.