6 March 2012

Complementary Colours

A complementary is the opposite colour - 
it can mean they fight each other or they get along really well - just like people really!

Purple and yellow are opposite each other on the colour wheel 

With a complemetary one colour is a primary colour and the other is a secondary. 
In this case the primary is Cream - it's a yellow but with lots of white in it. 
The secondary is the Old Violet which is made roughly from two primaries - blue and red. 


Mixing yellow and purple together makes Paloma - a grey made from two complementaries. 

I've made some great boards I have painted with colour swatches I want to share with you! 
Louis Blue & a pop of it's complementary Orange on the cups

I love talking about colour and I think  I can tell you some things that will make painting easier and more fun! 

This is the sort of thing I will be explaining and enlarging on at the Workshops I will be doing all one the USA starting on March 16th in

Dallas 
then 
San Francisco
then 
Denver
then 
Chicago 
moving to 
Nashville
to
  Atlanta
then 
Leesburg (near Washington) 
and finally finishing in
Boston 
on April 2nd! 

Get a ticket from this link below

http://www.anniesloanunfolded.com/event/

I don't want to hear you didn't know it was happening! !