Welcome back to my daily Color Challenge. Today is Monday, and that means it's RED color day again for my participation in the daily Color Challenge by Hive account@kalemandra.

I love the colors in the red palette. In fact, red is one of the oldest known colors. From cardinal to maroon, these two colors are among my favorite of the more than 400 shades.

So, I'm off to locate some images I actually photographed on my day out last week that includes awesome clouds and blue sky.

I also have some digital drawings I want to share.

COLOR CHALLENGE by Hive account@kalemandra

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When I first discovered the The Color Challenge Community, I didn't know what was acceptable as content. The more I read other authors' posts and saw what they posted, I realized how varied the content is as far as what you can present. This Community allows you to post twice a day images in your collection that represent the assigned colors for each day of the week.

On the Community page, you can find the different colors for each day in case you decided to participate. I've also listed the various colors below for your ease of reference.

PHOTOGRAPHS CAPTURED WITH MY CAMERA

As I'm beginning to return to a somewhat normal life of traveling and being out and about since the pandemic, the summer months are the most convenient for locating various colors. This is especially true of flowers. I was able to capture an image of a planter with a variety of colored flower. One I used as the thumbnail above.

In addition to photographs I capture with my cameras, I also love to design digital images with online digital drawing programs. I found three digital drawing programs that I like to work with to create the digital images.

APOPHYSIS 2.09

The first program I love is Apophysis 2.09 Fractal Rendering. This program creates fractals. A fractal is an image created utilizing mathematical coordinates. The program uses a grid that contains triangles for your use in maneuvering the coordinates. It's so much fun moving the coordinates to different locations to see what image will result. The flames are what produces the images. You need to render the flames and save the image.

Bomomo

This digital drawing I created with the program Bomomo. In working with the program, you don't have to download it. You're provided drawing tools to work with. I find them to be somewhat inflexible. They are set to do specific patterns with varying colors that change on different moves. The only way to fully understand how the tools will react is to practice.

If abstract images are your favorite, then this program is one you should definitely give a try.

Nvidia Gaugan AI Digital Drawing Program

The Nvidia Gaugan AI Digital Drawing is an online digital drawing program that utilizes a blank canvas. On the canvas, you produce images by entering brushstrokes. The brushstrokes represent features such as flowers, trees, grass, mountains, seas, rivers, sky, water, clouds, rocks, buildings, houses, and bridges. I only mention here a few of the features that are available.