How to Create Color Harmony in Painting

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Tip 1 - How to balance warm and cool colours

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Cliff Royal | permalink

Your colour choices can make or break a painting. Understanding warm and cool colours can instantly give your paintings a sense of harmony. In the above Titian painting ' Bacchus and Ariadne' Tita...

For further reading: http://willkempartschool.com/how-to-balance-warm-and-cool-colours/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Color Harmony in your Paintings: Margaret Kessler: 9781440323928: Amazon.com: Books

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by JOSE MELANDA | permalink

Color Harmony in your Paintings [Margaret Kessler] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <DIV>Instill more emotion in your paintings through Color HarmonyColor is one of the most powerful tools an artist can use to capture a mood or express an emotion. However
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For further reading: http://www.amazon.com/Color-Harmony-Paintings-Margaret-Kessler/dp/1440323925 ^[2]

Tip 3 - Michael Chesley Johnson: Color Harmony in a Landscape Painting

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Lilly Li | permalink

Michael Chesley Johnson built color harmony into an oil landscape painting by using a clear acrylic painting ground. See his step-by-step painting demo.

For further reading: http://www.artistsnetwork.com/articles/art-demos-techniques/how-to-use-a-clear-ground-for-color-harmony-in-painting ^[3]