Yellow Roses and Split Complementary

Yellow Roses and Vase
8x6 inches oil on canvas panel $140.SOLD

Artist Note
Continuing the color harmony
focus at the Guild this month.

This Split Complementary
 color harmony is an unusual
one for me to try.
For a start it is a red/violet
and not a blue violet.
The wheel below is by
The Color Wheel Company.

I made a reminder of my 

warm violet mixture.

and decided to use a tube color.

See the top one below.

Below is the palette

for the painting

The larger amount of the red/violet

reminds me to have more of it than

any other color. I cooled it 

with the black.

I used both the 

complement - yellow

and the grey to neutralize it.

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Colors used are

Mauve  (Holbein)

Perm Yellow Light

Ivory Black 

Titanium White

One dominate color - meaning "more of"

is the key to all these harmony lessons.

I remember the wonderful artist/teacher,

Ovanes Berbarian, saying over 

and over again...

"ask yourself is it a 

A pink-y painting

a blue-y painting - a green-y painting!"

Then make sure that color dominates.

I used to think the accent color 

was the dominate color

because I would notice it first

Like the yellow rose here. 

It took Ovanes to 

put it in easy words 

for me to understand.

So this is a "mauve-y painting!"