A Different Way of Collecting – Matching Palettes

My Background

I work at a large company as a software architect for cloud solutions. I basically construct blueprints for end-to-end cloud software solutions and help teams with their implementations. I have coded in many programming languages throughout my career, and find it fascinating how generative artists can produce beautiful art using p5.js with basic drawing functions.

I began my generative art collecting journey on fxhash in August 2022. Initially, I had no idea what art to collect. The best decision I made was to purchase a TENDER Pass and join that community discord. I have learned many collecting lessons from the community which consists of artists and collectors. I have also learned a lot about generative art by listening to the the Waiting to be Signed podcast.

Dencity and Hevey

Dencity is one of the first generative art pieces I collected on fxhash. I fell in love with the collection when I discovered it in a Deca gallery. I quickly started collecting as much as possible from both Dencity and Hevey's other collections. I am now currently one of the top ten collectors of Hevey's art on fxhash.

Matching Palettes

In the Tender community discord, I started to see posts about collecting "diptychs" (pairs of pieces) and "triptychs" (three pieces) of new collections. Basically, community members would often collect similar pieces - often with similar palettes - in the same collection. I thought this was a fascinating concept to adopt during my collecting journey. I decided to take it a step further and collect pieces by Hevey that shared the same palette across their different collections. Here is an example from my collection of several pieces from different collections all using the same "Olive" palette:

I did run into a slight issue while collecting with this approach: some collections had palettes described with numbers instead of descriptions. For example, the Entrelacements collection has palette "#7" which represents the same olive palette shown above. I overcame this by creating a spreadsheet including most of the Hevey collections and their associated palettes to find what matched. I shared my new spreadsheet with Hevey, who graciously helped me complete it. We both agreed to share this information with the community, and you can find this Google spreadsheet (here). I included a sample screenshot below:

I also created a Deca gallery with several more examples of the palettes running through Hevey's work. Here are some samples from my gallery:

"Fire" Palette:

"Winter" Palette:

Next Steps

I encourage everyone to start thinking about collecting art with matching palettes across collections. I demonstrated how this could be done with different collections from one artist. But of course, we can also take this even further by collecting similar palettes across many artists' collections. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions about palettes in Hevey's work - or just share your own combinations of pieces using similar palettes!

A special thank you to SandCat who helped edit this article. Another example of the family we have in the Tender Community.

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