Sometimes you can create a large-scale rhythm by using a certain color or its combination as a foundation for the painting but inserting patches of other colors among the main color of the picture. The impression would be that the main color will be visible but you will also see some other colors.

By using large-scale rhythm this way, you will get so much more details in a painting.

When you see some diagonal lines in a painting, often there is a symmetry among them - some lines go from the lowest left corner to the upper right corner of the painting while others do quite the opposite - from the upper left to the lower right.

This is of course not required but creates a balance in the rhythm.

Because red and green are the opposite colors, it is quite challenging to use them together in a painting. If you are not careful, you can get some muddy feeling.

One of the ways is to surround them with other colors, such as blue, white, pink, orange and brown. These colors with soften the effect of red and green.

Here's how you can paint a panorama of a city:

With a small brush use detailed view of the houses, streets, lights and other objects. If you want to paint from the birds eye, that's even better. The key here is to be as precise and as detailed as possible.

But in the distance, where there is a place for the horizon or the sky or even a sea, you can take a large brush and create a contrast with the fine lines up front.

You can choose whatever colors you like - your panorama can be of various versions of red or of blue colors. What about a green panorama? I bet this would be a remarkable choice.

Try to paint this painting - family of 3 standing people: a father on the left, a mother in the center and a son on the right.

Sounds like a regular family painting?

Not quite - the 3 persons are barefoot, the father's pants are too short, he is looking diagonally to the right and his feet are pointing to the right. The mother's left middle finger and the thumb are white, she is looking straight ahead and her feet are pointing forward. The son is wearing shorts, looking diagonally to the left and his feet are pointing left.

Imagine two paintings:

In one there would be two identical houses in the distance and three ships (the tallest one - exactly in the center and the two on the edges would be identical).

In another, the houses would be quite similar but not identical and the ship on the right would have white sails while the one on the left would have dark brown sails. On the extreme right of the painting would be depicted a lonely tree.

Two questions:
1. Which one of the two paintings would have the perfect symmetry?
2. Which one would be more interesting?

It's difficult to use green and red next to each other in a painting - they are opposing colors and create a drastic impact for the viewer.

An idea: what if the green were light and warm with lots of yellow in it and around the green and red there would be dark blue? Would that change the effect of the opposing colors?

Everybody knows that mixing yellow and blue in a painting produces green color.

The more yellow you add to the mix, the warmer the color is, the more blue - the cooler the color.

What would happen, though, if in between and around the blue and yellow the artist would surround them with various versions of green? Lighter and darker green, warmer and cooler green.

Sure, using yellow and blue exclusively in a painting will have an interesting effect if you look from the distance.

But using green with the combination of yellow and blue reinforces those two colors.

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