Hey - thanks for the question! For color harmonies, I start with a playground of grays. As you may know from my color-related videos, grays are what harmonize, because they are so close together on the color wheel. I build up my palette with the grays that take on the hues I want to eventually get more saturated with. So I may have some warm grays (yellows, reds, oranges) and some cooler grays (violets, blues) to start. Then I can pick and choose which hues I want to build to become more saturated. As color gets more saturated, its distance from other colors becomes greater. This is dangerous when you don't have a foundation of grays in place, so I tend to start with the grays as my preferred method of ensuring that harmony happens. As for the creative process, I've learned that it's impossible and unreasonable to ask myself to have all the answers to a visual problem at the start. I may have a general inkling of the initial direction to go in, but after that, I need to be open to finding unexpected pathways and problems and solutions while on the journey of creating the piece. Brad Bird once said about storytelling that if you can surprise yourself while you write, the audience will more than likely also feel that sense of surprise. I find the same to be true with creating a painting. All the best with your work!