YELLOW and PURPLE

It is not only a matter of learning the techniques but also a matter of time and experience, to understand what to look and what to see.

Yellow is specifically difficult in this sense. It is widely accepted to paint with the complimentary colour when yellow is the subject. As the complimentary colour of yellow, you pick up one purple for the sahdes and than yellow on top.

Starting with a trial page of colours is the key. Most probably your trail page will look like similar to below picture attached.

Does this help? Not sure.

It is the turn of the trained eye, which can seperate the colours from the bars around.

On the side you can see them with the help of technology and might be surprised with what you see. You can differenciate all different values of shades of yellow independant from the factors around.

It is the reason why we use this tool. It is a simple paper 2’’x2’’ with a hole on center. It helps you to eliminate the colours around and leaves you with the single colour picked with the plant and your painting.

Can you pick the colours of this petal now?