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Complimentary Colors in Pastel Paintings

Using complimentary colors in pastel paintings brings out the intensity of the colors. Learn how to use complimentary colors in pastel paintings in this free video.

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There's an interesting thing about complimentary colors. Now if you're not a trained artist, you may not even know what a complimentary color is, so lets talk about it. Complimentary color on the color wheel, if you can imagine a color wheel. It goes red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, red. If this is red, the color that's opposite on it, on the color wheel is green and if you put red against green, the green makes the red look redder than it would be if that same red were against blue or brown or any other color. Alternatively the red makes the green look greener than it does otherwise and that's because of the way that our brain processes color. So let's talk a little bit about how the brain deals with color.

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Complimentary Colors in Pastel Paintings

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