Following up with Juxtaposition a little further,
I've kept the same background colors and I've
changed the color on top. I've used a very
intense light green. It seems very intense
on here because of the difference in value,
you've got a change of value here. It doesn't
seem so intense on the orange, partly because
the values are much closer together, than
with the green or the blue. In here it looks
darker and more intense, if that's possible,
because it's next to its complimentary color.
Red and green are complimentaries, there's
a reason why they go together at Christmas.
Complimentaries give you the biggest bang
for your buck. Here we have the green and
it does look like a more powerful green, than
it does on the orange. Over on this side I
tried a darker green and, again, it seems
more intense here. It seems a little bit more
neutral on this one and on this one, because
it's close to the value, it sinks a little
bit because they're both similar values. It
stands out on this one more because of the
value and in this one, the values are fairly
similar and it shows up because it's a complimentary.
Then I put the pink next to it because, again,
pink is a form of red and so I wondered what
the pink would do next to its complimentary
color. Still doing what it did the first time,
in that, this pink looks bluer and this pink
looks more orange. Putting it next to the
green, it makes the pink more vibrant because
the green is next to it and it's sort of helping
that complimentary bang come forth. It's never
about one color. You can never mix a color
on your palette and say "that's it," until
you get it up on your painting, working with
all the other colors.
