How do we do achieve form in painting without sacrificing colour tone.
Are you an artist that rely heavily on earth tone colour to create great form? Or you are perhaps the colourist who create paintings with loosely stated form.
Colour can be used to model a form in painting.
In a monochromatic painting, we would often mix varying amounts of black and white colour to show the progressive change in light around an object.
Using opposite colour is a very powerful technique.
If you choose to use only value and temperature, then the effect will not be as powerful as using contrasting colours.
Complementary colour palettes lead to paintings which have a strong colour.
If you limit the colour palette to just two families, the colour mixtures are related and you will hence create an atmospheric effect in your painting ! Let me share with you some tips for creating complementary colour palettes: Complementary hues are the most dramatic element of contrasting colour.
What is complementary hues? They are pairs of colours that share no common elements and when they mixed, create a neutral 'grey' colour.
If you are familiar with the colour wheels, complementary colours are always shown directly opposite each other.
Example, across red is green, across yellow is purple and across blue is orange.
So that time when you paint, instead of using a more traditional palette, try to limit to the families of two complementary colours which are best suited for the theme of your painting.