What I Know

Primary colors are red, blue, and yellow. Secondary colors are purple, orange, and green and you create these colors by mixing the primary colors. Complimentary colors are opposites like red and green, blue and yellow, and purple and orange. the colors are seen together usually on team uniforms because they create a bold affect. Its good to use color to create emphasis along with your brush strokes to add texture. To create shadow in a painting is to mix complimentary colors. To make highlights i would make it lighter with white and then blend it into the object in the painting. To show the distance f an object in a picture i would make it smaller and also make it less defined. The first step to making a painting is to have a picture in your mind of what you want to create. After that you find objects or examples that would help you to actually see what your trying to make. Then you focus on the colors that will be Incorporated. As you go through the steps your main picture in your head changes to fit the painting you've made.