My friend Sylvia is attracted to violets and yellow greens when she paints. I frequently paint with yellow/green, but rarely paint with violets. I decided to experiment.
I thought that I would do a painting based on the warm/cool palette of color theory. As you can see from this color wheel, colors can be divided into warm and cool.
I chose to use yellow/green and red/violet because they are complementary colors on the color wheel. They are opposite each other and therefore when used together they make for a vibrant and interesting painting.
I started with tints, tones and shades of yellow/green and red/violet. This gave me a rather cool painting. I then added the warm yellow and a touch of red/orange to warm the scene.
Here is the finished painting. It does not have a title yet. Any suggestions?