Different amounts of green take the glow effect of orange down.
It kind of neutralize the importance of the strong warm color in the painting.
I go to the conclusion that green actually is a stronger eye catcher than orange.
We have this complement color reaction in our eyes
and staring at a strong orange spot will make an after picture of grey or grey green,
when you then look upon a white surface.
When painting we can use this knowledge and make our glow effect stronger by
using the complement color effects, when we chose our color harmony.
As you see.... in some of the pictures shown here,artists use a small amount of yellow to
make eye catch points so they energize the perhaps too stiff or boring composition.
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| William Glackens American 1870-1938 This picture was painted 1920 |
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| Collette W Davis |
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| Andrey Remnev |
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| Amadeo Modigliani |
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| Gunnar Zilo |
Gunnar Zilo is one of those artists in Scandinavia ,
who haven't gotten enough attention in Art History.
A wonderful colorist that I find more interesting than Wilhelm Lundstøm in Denmark
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| Bertalan de Karlovszky |
Seems to be the sketch for this painting
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| Bertold Karlovsky |
Here he decided to cool down the color range
I find the sketch more interesting though
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| James Kerr Lawson |
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| May Smith |
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| Ivan Olinsky Painted 1915 |
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| Hans Purrman |
Blue and ocher gives the image of olive green which then weigh up the red hairs dominance.
He even added some turquoise and a small eye in the sleeve to move the view down.
He even added some turquoise and a small eye in the sleeve to move the view down.
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| Raimundo De Madrazo Y Garetta |
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| Lillie Watts Langtry |
Here there are so much green that the hair color get a very small importance.
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| De Scevola |
Some artist use an other artist's color harmony
and make a new picture but with the exact same colors
Others get there by chance.
Hard to know which was the reason for this picture of Botero
who is known for using earlier portraits to inspire.
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| Fernando Botero |
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| Thomas Cooper Gotch Halleluja |
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| Lucian Vicktor Guirand de Scavola |
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| James Jacquez Jospeh Tissot Portraits of Princesse De Broglie |
And to show a Russian -German woman,
who makes something she calls Portrait Metamorphose
Where she takes commissions and switch the faces of an old portrait with
a photo of her clients and work on it in Photoshop I guess and
then the whole thing is printed on a canvas to look like a painting.
In this days everything is possible!
If you can't afford a real portrait an alternative could be this.
Nb Add some flowers if the decolletage is too low!
http://en.portrait-metamorphose.eu/your_portrait.html
For those who find this interesting.
who makes something she calls Portrait Metamorphose
Where she takes commissions and switch the faces of an old portrait with
a photo of her clients and work on it in Photoshop I guess and
then the whole thing is printed on a canvas to look like a painting.
In this days everything is possible!
If you can't afford a real portrait an alternative could be this.
Nb Add some flowers if the decolletage is too low!
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| Inessa E. Imatchinski |
For those who find this interesting.
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| Leon Wyczolkowsky Polish artist 1852-1936 Irena Solska Look what a difference in the orange hairs glow when the background is blue! Wyczolkowsky deliberately shows how dominant the hair can be when the colors bring each other to radiate the most. |
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| Leon Wyczolkowsky Irena Solska |
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| Jozef Mehoffer Irena Solska The different artists seem to not agree on which nose she had? |
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| Irena Solska |
Well its allowed to be inspired by a face and then twist it to become more interesting!
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Rossetti also makes teh hair glow with a green surrounding but here it seems illustrative .
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| Carl Max Rebel |
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| Childe Hassam |
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| Gerda Wegener |
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| Julie Wolfthorn She was murdered in Theresianstadt concentrationcamp A picture that seem very inspired by Gauguin. |
