My two complementary colors were yellow-green and red-violet. Using muted colors in between the two colors created a muted brown, which helped create depth, used in areas for shading. I used prismatic colors in the foreground, using red-violet as the warm extreme and yellow-green as the cooler hue. Colors with darker values were used for shading (mostly brown, combination of the two complementary). The original low-contrast photo was used to reference the different values. I think it is successful in utilizing complementary colors in order to create depth, however, I thought it’d be fun to challenge myself by choosing these particular colors, and ended up shooting myself in the foot because they were very hard to find in magazines. I ran out of the correct colors as well as time. If I could re do this piece, I would choose a different set of complementary colors.
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