Complements Of The Seasons

And here’s the complete collection. I started by thinking about colour schemes. I’ve painted collections of monotone paintings with a single colour in each, collections of monohue (is that a word?) paintings with different shades of single coloured in each, collections of black/white/grey paintings with tiny dashes of colour. What next? How bout complementary colours? Three portraits, one each in red/green, yellow/violet and blue/orange? Yeh, let’s do that.

But who to paint in complementary colours? Well, complements made me think of compliments of the season and I ended up deciding to pick out people sharing their names with the seasons. But with only three pairs of complementary colours available, that left me with the challenge of what to do with the fourth painting. Black and white aren’t complementaries, being at opposite ends of Munsell’s colour cylinder rather than on opposite sides of the colour wheel.

And it was while out on one of my daily walks that the answer came to me. If I can’t paint in complementary colours, then I’m going to paint in complementary angles (angles that add up to a right angle). And this saved me having to decide between Henry and Johnny for the Winter slot.

Not my greatest ever marker portrait collection but it was fun and the set is up for sale.

Here are links to the four subpaintings:

• Dick Spring In Violet And Yellow
• Donna Summer In Blue And Orange
• Autumn Reeser In Red And Green
• Henry Winter + Johnny Winter = Pi/2