A Complementary Art Workshop...

We all can most likely recall the day our sixth grade art teacher, perhaps while wearing a striped pantsuit and dangly parrot earrings (did I just date myself?), tried to teach us the color wheel. Emphasis on tried. Primary, secondary, whateverary. Making a science of color is like dissecting a poem –once you take it apart, the magic seems to disappear.

Idyllworks artists know how to teach without losing the magic. 

Here is a glimpse of a typical Idyllworks art lesson. Free of charge…and pantsuits.

We could tell you that complementary colors are found directly across from one another on the color wheel…red and green, orange and blue, yellow and purple. And you will not remember it.  But what if we instead showed you complementary colors...

Do you think you might remember them now?

There is of course much more to color theory than this.  But the thing to remember is that the natural world contains all the lessons we need to know about color. When we see something beautiful – so beautiful we have to stop and even turn the car around – it is usually color theory at work. Nature's complementary art workshop.

So think of the color wheel as a translator that helps us to understand the language of nature in all of its colorful glory. Not a chore to learn but a gift to understand!

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