This image uses analagous colours again but this time instead of using 3 analagous colours and one complement I’m using the complement of each colour to enable me to neutralize and darken each colour.  The 3 colours with their complements in brackets are Cad Yellow Light (blue-violet), Cad Orange (blue violet) and Permanent Green Light (Quinacridone Rose).  My dominant colour was the Cad Orange, sub-dominant was Permanent Green Light with hints of Cad Yellow Light.  Again the colour unity is very strong.  When you work this way you start to understand the emotional impact of various colours.  This painting has a fairly bright feel for a moody atmospheric painting.  I can’t wait to try it in cool colours.

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