I love all you color choices first off, second I wanna know what your ideas and method of using and choosing color is. Pairing and such. Ive been stuck on the thought of my lack of understanding color. For months the wires dont want to connect. idk if that makes sense
I started off totally ignoring colour and working mostly in black & white about four year ago cause I was honestly ‘scared’ of screwing it up so I think I was very much in a imilar place as you, but after slowly working colour into pieces then taking the plunge it can be a lot of fun. When I choose what colours I want to use it can honestly just be a case of ‘I feel like using green today’ then paring that with colours that goes with it (blues, yellows).
Often when I’ve decided what colours I want to use is I take time to look at the work of my favourite artists and see how they use colour, which colours they utilise, and then analyse what tonal ranges they use in those colours. For example, are the yellows brighter or more muted, are then cooler or warmer? What are they paired with and does this achieve the effect that I want to? All of this is also affected on what I’m thinking of doing with the image in general, like am I going for dark and imposing or something lighter, and do I want contrasting elements in this in either the colours or just tonal values. This page here has some colour charts that show warmer and cooler tones of colours, it’s about oils and has some information on oil paint pigments (e.g. purity) but it’ still really good to look at.
In the past I’ve made some colour charts from a colour palette I was using that day which can also be really useful. If you’re painting I really do also recommend learning to mix your own colours if that’s not something you do much of (or at all) cause I found it to be really helpful in my understanding of colours and what they pair with. Mixing paints can be really fun and relaxing, and if you made gradients between colours you also have something to reference back on when making decisions.
i think a lot of it it to just have fun and experiment; make smaller pieces where you just focus on colour alone, make small colour charts, use colours that you like. Keep your brushes clean if that what you use so you avoid the colours mixing and getting yucky too (though...more common sense. Not to doubt you intelligence at all!)
I hope that’s help for you and if you’d like me to answer anything else (or clarify anything) I’m more than happy to do so.