From the course: Artist at Work: Complementary Colors

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Working with complementary colors

Working with complementary colors

So now I'm going to take the green, and I'm going to bring it into the picture. (SOUND), And the first thing I'm going to do, is, I'm going to add it to the section where the shadow exists, okay? Now, I can just graze this color right over the top of this surface of the red, and it does one thing. The two things sort of vibrate and react to each other. But if I want that to be more neutral, I want it to really sit back on the apple as though it's turning away. I'm actually just take my finger, and the oils in your finger will press that color right into the surface. And it actually turns a kind of brown color. And that's what I'm seeing, so, that's why I'm doing this. What's happening is, I'm mixing the two opposite colors together and when you mix two opposites, they neutralize each other out. If you layer them transparently one on top of the other they cancel each other out. So that's what I'm doing right now, and that's a pretty effective way to make a shadow color. But now if I…

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