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!"
