Color Studies Project
For this project I picked a picture of my favorite animal, a peacock. I wanted to use a close-up headshot of the peacock as using a picture that had the peacock's full body would be difficult to do due to the different patterns on the feathers.
Monochrome:
Using different shades and tints of red I was able to use different brushes and create a similar design to the original picture. I wanted to keep the feeling of the peacock having feathers, so I used Spring brushes that were in the shape of different plants to give it the feeling of feathers. I wanted the peacock to pop so I made the background dark and outlined them in white to separate the background color and the peacocks red colors.
Complementary:
For the complementary colors I went with blue and yellow. I used two different sets of brushes for this one, both had similar strokes to a real paintbrush. Mixing the colors with different brush types I wanted it to look like a painting while keeping the peacocks feather patterns. I added a dark outline around the peacock, so it didn't blend in with the background.
Split Complementary:
The Split Complementary was a hard one, I couldn't decide which colors to do so I ended up doing orange, blue, and green. I used watercolor brushes and put stroke over stroke to make the strokes look like feathers. I wanted the colors to flow with each other, make it look like it was natural almost swirling and merging. For the background I wanted something that would complement the peacock and its colors but not take the attention away from it completely, so I used a lightning brush and made it look like there were cracks around the peacock.
Tetrad:
This one is my favorite out of all of them, the Tetrad painting had to be one of the ones I had the most fun doing. For this piece I used multiple brushes. I went with a peacock made entirely out of flowers. Using flower brushes and pencil brushes I was able to succeed in making it look like it was made entirely out of flowers and leaves. The colors mixed with each other and even gave off a calming feeling. The background is a bit blurred to make the peacock look like it was somewhere all while popping out.
