Paintings with a complementary color scheme use complements as the overall predominant color in the painting. Like orange and blue, green and red, violet andyellow. This also includes the in-between colors on the color wheel, like red-orange and blue-green or blue-violet and yellow-orange. It’s not a calming or peaceful scheme like the analogous colors which pick colors next to each other on the color wheel. Complements are opposites and can be jarring or more unsettling.
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Upon first viewing the painting and before reading the comment you made I thought, hmnn, Phil paints much like Gruppe or Carlson. And I do see some of that influence in your paintings. Thanks for sharing so much information. I have just recently run across your site after I had signed up for a workshop at Tucson Art Academy. I am seriously thinking of your video/critique course.
First must see if I have enough ability to persue.
Fred
Upon first viewing the painting and before reading the comment you made I thought, hmnn, Phil paints much like Gruppe or Carlson. And I do see some of that influence in your paintings. Thanks for sharing so much information. I have just recently run across your site after I had signed up for a workshop at Tucson Art Academy. I am seriously thinking of your video/critique course.
First must see if I have enough ability to persue.
Fred