Have you ever noticed that when you change the background color, your subject changes too?
In these four photos, I have used the same purple plum on different colored grounds. Some of the ground color jumps into the shiny surface of the plum. Also, the colored grounds place emphasis on the variety of colors within the plum.
With so many different colors available in tubes today, I have seen artists taking the shortcut by using a color from the tube that resembles the color of the subject.
These purple plum shapes were painted with only Dioxazine Purple.
Each purple shape has a different appearance because of the background color.
The shapes themselves, have no life to them.
When I paint a purple shape, I consider all the colors that I see in the subject.
In the case of the purple plum, I was aware of yellow and orange as well as a variety of nuances in the purple.
When I paint the color purple, I think of the colors that makeup this secondary hue - reds and blues.
I apply them into the still wet yellow and orange plum shape and then add the Dioxazine Purple into the wet colors. With small puddles of the chosen colors at the ready, the plum was painted a la prima.
My multi-colored plums are surrounded by the same colored grounds of yellow, orange
blue, and green that were used in the previously painted Dioxazine Purple plums.
Compare the differences between these plums and the first plums that I painted with a single hue. When working with the secondary hue purple, study the color of the subject. Is it a red-purple or a blue-purple? Work with colors analogous to the purple to improve the richness of the color.
The floral painting this month is a study of the color purple.
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