"Encouragement" (sold)

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Everyone who has an encouraging friend is a blessed person. If you don't have a friend like this, become one to someone else. It won't be long before you do have one.

As you have probably noticed, I like to include images that imply a human presence. The reason I do this is because I want to leave that part open to the viewer's imagination. You can imagine whoever you want to be sitting at the table with you. I also like the form of a chair.

In yesterday's post I talked about the contrast of extension. In plain English...it is the percentage of space a particular color occupies in the piece. Johannes Itten in his book, The Elements of Color has come up with the most harmonious percentages of the direct complementary colors. For instance...yellow should occupy no more than one fourth of the space while violet would occupy three fourths. Orange would be one third to blue which would be two thirds...etc. Of course, this is a guideline. Most of us extend a color to occupy as much space as we personally like. A wonderful experiment to try is to select a photo or image with colors you like and roughly figure out what percentage of the space each color occupies. Create a completely different abstract painting using those same percentages. It's fascinating and gives you an excellent jumping off point for your color scheme.

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