With this exercise I first of all laid out all of my tubes of paint and then matched them to Chevreul’s colour wheel as best I could. I had to mix Cadmium Red with Brown and Violet to make the Maroon colour segment. I noticed that one half of the wheels colours are cool and the other half are warm colours.
I started on the Complementary colours or Opposite colours first, noticing that when placed next to each other they seemed to make a strong contrast to each other. I also noticed that when the complementary colours were mixed with each other they almost cancelled each other out? They became muted almost earthy tones of colour?
Edgar Degas used these complementary colour contrasts to create striking artworks.
I then went on to the Analogous colours, which are the colours that are next to each other on the colour wheel. I think they help to create a harmonious colour scheme and artists like Van Gogh have used them to their full effect on the paintings below.
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