Northern Desert Vista (In Two Colors)

I often enjoy painting with a really restricted, complementary color palette. For Northern Desert Vista, I used only Dioxazine Purple and Yellow Ochre to create the spectrum of colors you see (while also using White to vary the value where necessary). This occasional detour into using only two colors is a fun diversion for me, and is also quite instructive as to how many grays there are in the world! I've employed a similar two-color palette in two other works: Evening in Waldo Canyon (Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine Blue), and Early Evening in the Jemez (Transparent Earth Red and Green Umber).