Painters do not simply load their brushes with a color and add it to the canvas; they mix the colors on a palette first.Additionally, some of the colors Vermeer used are no longer visible.Can you find the primary colors on this color wheel?
What did you notice in doing this exercise about how the feeling of the painting changed? Where do you think it would have made more difference, in the skin or the clothing?
Art historians have found that Vermeer used 11 pigment colors in this painting: This painting shows how complex color can become.
Using colored pencils, crayons, or fine tip markers, color in the painting.
Instead of reproducing the colors the way you see them in the painting on the previous page, select a complementary color (remember that those are opposite each other on the color wheel). In this painting by Johannes Vermeer called , the color palette is very limited, yet in an entirely different way from the Matisse painting shown before.
Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel are called (9)___________________.
Colors that are opposite to each other on the color wheel are called 10)_______________.
For example, where you see green, color a corresponding shade or tint of red, and where you see blue, color in orange. Originally, the dark background had a green glaze over it, but this is no longer visible.
Use Adobe's color wheel to find the complementary color — just spin the wheel until you see the color you are looking for, and its complement will be on the other side. Imagine what the color green would have looked like next to the colors you can see now.
If something is completely lacking in color, it is called (16)_______________________.
The colors on the green/blue/violet side of the color wheel are called (17) ___________.
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