Now let’s put color harmony knowledge to work. I love taking a painting and then making it “snap” to a color chord. I have gotten a bit off-track with all the analysis of color harmonies, so let’s go back to paintings from mentorees… Here is another...
I had a harder time finding a painting based on a 5-color chord from Sorolla, and this one below may even be stretching it a bit. Some of the violet seems to run to red-violet. He mostly seemed to use 3 or 4 color chords, especially triads in the primary hues, but...
Going back to Sorolla as our master of color, we can see he knew the value of using more than just 3 colors in his paintings. There are 2 “chords” that use 4 colors instead of 3. The first combination consists of rotating every 3rd color around the wheel....
So last week I touched on how to use color harmonies in a painting. Since then I have had requests asking to talk about color harmonies some more, so this week I thought I would take a break from mentorship pieces to show how a true color master, Sorolla, used color...
Another way to add “wow” to a painting is through effective use of color harmonies. They can give big impact to a painting with just a little bit of planning… Here is the original from another lovely artist. The thing that is fighting for attention the most here...
