Scrolling through paintings from the last challenge made me feel as if I am visiting some well know museum where every style embraced by well known artists through centuries was present. It felt great knowing that there is so much talent and potential out there we as artists are blessed with, and it is our gift and fortune to express it and share with the world around us. Thank you for this special privilege of enjoying your art.
About the composition
There is something very magical in the way colors are distributed
around in this photo reference.
If I think what would that be, the very first observation coming to my
mind is a play of two complementary colors, cold blue-purple on one side and warm yellow-orange
on the opposite side.
The dog has blue-purple nose, below the eyes, some fur areas on the left
side, while the rest of it is yellow-orange.
Interestingly, background has the same colors just arranged in such way
that cold blue-purple is always next to warm yellow orange. Simply there is no
area where background is yellow orange and foreground is yellow orange. There
is always a passage of blue-purple in between.
It would be interesting if you try to emphasize this play of colors and adjust
color values and intensity to communicate darker, more pronounced dog in the foreground,
and relatively dark closest background vanishing into pale, hazy blue and gold in
the far away background.
Please send your paintings before May 14, 2017. The next challenge will
be posted on May 15.
Thank you for participating and Happy Painting,
Lela
