Thursday, 8 March 2012

Purple And How Majestic it Looks in Fine Art Painting

By John Dorian


There are three primary colors, red, yellow and blue plus there are three secondary colors, orange, green and purple. The color yellow is complimentary to the colors purple or violet and that appears on the artist's color wheel. During Easter yellow and purple are widely used and you can see how well they compliment each other.

Two primary colors make one secondary color and to make purple you mix red with blue. To change the value of the purple color adjust the red and blue accordingly. More red added is obviously a reddish purple and more blue added is bluish purple. The colors violet and purple, their spirituality and the psychology behind them:

Paintings that have purple in them in any form or value tend to give off awaken different emotions in the viewer. To get an old fashioned and chilled feel the purple must lean more towards the blue color rather than the red, this will give the desired effect. The redder the purple the more of a luxurious feel it gives off. A warm feeling purple is always closer to red rather than blue. Purple is usually considered a feminine color because it creates a feeling of gentleness when in its softer shade, violet. Contrarily to this, men who were considered royal or upper class always wore purple. Wearing purple clothes was only done by those kings and emperors and that is because in ancient times no average person could afford the purple dye that was used. Purple is used to represent a wide variety of things in the world today, not only is the color associated with gay pride but there is also the purple heart which is a bravery award issued to soldiers and other military heroes. Spiritually speaking violet or purple is thought to represent the spirituality within man. The pigments used in the color purple:

Purple colored paint is made from many different compounds and even though it is made from mostly Cobalt, Quinacridone and Ultramarine it is also made from Manganese and Dioxazine. For your own type of purple it is as simple as mixing blues and reds until you come up with what you want.

Blending purple:

To get your desired color the procedure to mix colors has always been to do a small mixture first and then gradually build by adding more color. By keeping a record of the exact amount of color in each mixture artists have a recipe book so that they can create large quantities of the colors they want.

By adding some yellow to your purple base different shades of purple will be made that is because yellow is the complimentary color of purple. Violet is a triad color and when beginning your painting with yellow add a touch of purple to create different shades of violet.




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