How to use red and green next to each other

2/18/2014

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.

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Monte

2/18/2014 11:30:06 am

Called "subtractive" colors - a tint or dye that absorbs some of the color spectrum.

Thus, you have Cyan, Magenta and Yellow (Cyan is a compliment to red, Magenta is a compliment to Green and Yellow is a compliment of Blue) to begin with over that white canvas. One tones these three colors to absorb some of the colors to where the reflection of the results is what we see.

Mix those three primary colors and you get black which has absorbed all of the color spectrum and black is the results of the reflection.

"Additive" colors is the reverse using a black background and adding Red Green and Blue light (which is the secondary colors of Yellow Cyan and Magenta) in the mix to make white.

I have an unusual condition in my vision due to one eye can't align itself with the right eye making me see double without my glasses on. Thus, I have glasses that the lenses are offset from the axis to create "prism" lenses to actually bend the light, not to the center of the retina, but to the side to eliminate the double vision. In doing so, these lenses actually break up the spectrum of light, esp with the opposite ends being red and blue. The results are that if a bright red lettering or object is being a solid blue or black background, the red image stands out to give a 3 dimensional effect .. and the reverse effect holds if the image is blue using the red or black background.

Thx again - Monte

How to use red and green next to each other