Wednesday, Week 15: Olga - Four Color Earth Palette, Oil on Synthetic Sheet (22/04/2020)

Today we choose to emphasize a relationship between two complementary colors in our palette - our earthy red and our greenish grey. And we're not only going to put them together so that they can magnify each other's qualities (to this day, this trait of complementaries still amazes me) but we're going to use their relationship to model form. Because of the physiology of our visual perception and how we understand the colors that are visible to us a a species, we're able to trick our brain into thinking that when green and red are together, one of them can recede and the other can come forward in "space" depicting three-dimensionality. Oooofff, this is nothing short of miraculous to me. So we're simplifying a very simple palette in order to push the dynamics between two of the hues that are available. And yes, we're dropping a bit of bluish grey to offset things a little bit :) If you liked the painting we did today and you want to purchase it, please visit our storefront! http://www.ourpaintedlives.com Thank you ALL for your incredible support. Dani and I could not be more grateful. If you like what we're doing, please consider donating :) If you're in a rough spot, no worries, we TOTALLY get it. Thank you for your support!!! http://www.ourpaintedlives.com/donations