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Oil painting basics–the warm and cold of color

The picture hue is the common effect produced by cool and warm tones and So how to recognize the warm and cold colors?

Different colors give people different visual feelings. Red, orange and yellow have a warm, warm feeling and are called warm colors.

Blue, green and purple give people a cold, cool feeling, and are called cold colors.

And yellow compared with yellow-green, yellow-green is cooler; blue-green compared with yellow-green, yellow-green is warmer.

The warm and cold tones of the dark part of the object, depending on the strength of the ambient color light, the basic tendency of the ambient color reflections of warm and cold, and then combined with the dark color.

The same color, the color of cold and warm has a certain relative nature, in the color of cold and warm contrast, the color of cold and warm is only relative, there is no absolute cold and warm colors.

The backlight part of the object color phase is warm and cold, is based on the synthesis of inherent color and environmental color.

The use of color, daylight environment of the still life sketch, the light surface color is generally cool, the backlight is warm.

Starting from Impressionism, modern oil paintings use more contrast between warm and cold colors.

Complementary colors, as the strongest contrast between warm and cold colors, can bring out the strong impact of colors.

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