Fall Fearless and Fly - Second Challenge

This is my first time participating art challenge online.  I signed up in Fall Fearless and Fly on Artists in Blogland and expected myself to take the challenge and made some good move for my art development.

I caught up the second challenge given the following prompts.

Headline Prompt:  Taking a Chance:  When did you take a chance or a leap of faith?  How did it turn out?  What did you learn?
Color Prompt:  What color do you like least? Use it!
Quote Prompt:  "Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase -- that's what wild geese are for." Anonymous

It appeared to me that the color prompt was easier for me to start up.  I wasn't thinking much about the headline and quote.  I wouldn't say that I dislike a certain color.  It is rather that I have less control over some of them.  Orange was the first color came across my mind and I always have hard time matching it with dark blue like Persian blue.  That was how I got there.

It has been a while for me asking myself how I can paint more freely.  I want to explore more possibility but most of time I can feel the fear of failing a work.

Now I decided to bear with the worry and do it anyway.  If I waste a canvas then I waste it!

So I prepared the canvas with gesso and coffee ground and painted it randomly with orange.  Later I added some megenta and a little burnt brown.  I did this over and over again until I saw something in the mix of texture and colors.

In the middle of coloring, I had to use the light blue (Wedgwood blue), a blue color that I was more comfortable with, to soften the orange.

It didn't turn out an orange picture as I planned but I was happy since the blue and orange stayed balanced together.  Well, we often deal with outcome that is not as planned, don't we?

I learned to see other aspects of me and my work.  I learned to appreciate rather than criticize myself like I usually do.  I took a chance to join these artists in Blogland and used colors I often feel less in control.  How did it turn out?  Not as bad as I imagined.  This reminded me of something - Stop creating monsters for myself.  That is when idea would occur.