Summary: Nature is full of color temperature examples. Learn how to look for color temperature in nature with tips from a professional artist in this free painting video.
Anna Greene-Smith is a freelance illustrator. She graduated from MassArt in Boston in 2006 and spent some time studying at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. She is...read more
"So you can find examples of warm and cool color patterns in nature pretty much everywhere you look. It's really quite amazing. I can show you a few more examples. This particular flower is perfect composition of warm and cool, the red and the green. It's really amazing. And if you think about it, probably the majority of the flowers are going to have a warm tinge to them, be it pink or red or yellow. Another example would be right here the apple tree that I was talking about. These apples are yellow, other apples are red. They're more, they're always pretty much going to be the warmer colors except for the green apple actually, but you got all cool colors in the back -- green leaves, blue sky, this brown that's kind of a more blue-brown, greeny-brown. And then these warm apples, the yellow apples, beautiful example of how nature really gets the warm and cool color palette right every time. Here's another example -- the warm flowers, the purply, purply red flowers and then the background which is really cool; green and the blue. Almost every single picture that we can look at in here would be the same thing. Here we got the green on the outside and then the yellowey on the insides. So, again it's warm and cool. Nature's really inspirational when you want to think about how to use a color palette. Usually the backgrounds in most things are going to be the cool and the things that are coming out at you, the subject matters of paintings or your artwork, is going to be more warm."