Yellow is complementary with purple, but you’ll have to admit that the vivid green in the shoes and towel is doing a pretty good job here. Split complementary colors again in this instance. Photography, in Greek, means writing (or drawing) with light, and colors too. Instead, I have built my own palette over time, my set of preferred colors.īut painting is miles away from photography. In the above picture, as it happens, the scan has made the colors paler, the digital rendition of this watercolor is far from being as lively as the original.Įssentially, I consider myself as, above all, a colorist. For years on end, I painted watercolors until I forged my own style. They aren’t complementary colors per se, though, split complementary rather. This one is stressing complementary colors even more. It works well, sometimes, as in the picture below, but not always.
The principle whereby pictures whose colors are taken from opposite sides on the color wheel will work best looks ludicrous to me.Īs often with theories, pundits will expatiate at length about the intricacies of things that we, mere mortals, would have taken for granted without even a second thought.ĭon’t misunderstand me. You don’t always need complementary colors The unrealistic blending of colors, screen calibration or lack thereof, the resolution of your screen, display brightness setup, not to mention the choice of RGB vs CYMK , and a million other things make it painting on a screen a somewhat imperfect substitute for paper and proper pigments.
There is a big issue with digital colors rendered on a screen. My rendition of Joseph Stoddard’s color wheel as in Expressive painting (2018 – Quarto publishing group). Joseph Stoddard in his Expressive Painting opus starts his color chapter with a note about why artists should forget about the color wheel and focus on experimentation rather than “conduct an exhaustive analysis of color theory.’ (Expressive painting - 2018 – Quarto Publishing group, p 136).Īnd then he moves on to explain the color theory. What if we ditched the complementary color theory? Granted, in the below picture, it works pretty well. Photography, a horse of a different colorĪn irreverent look at complementary colors.An irreverent look at complementary colors.
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