Original artwork description:

In the traditional colour wheel each primary colour - Red, Yellow and Blue - has its complementary colour - Green, Purple and Orange. Each complementary colour can be made by combining the other two primary colours - thus green can be made with yellow and blue, purple with red and blue, orange with red and yellow. So what, I hear your cry! I'm a busy person! I don't have time for this! Well, OK, but I hope you never find yourself adrift in the sea after a shipwreck wearing a blue life jacket. Or I hope they never hand out yellow and purple lenses when you next go to watch a 3D film. And I hope you never come across an aubergine in your custard. The great painters became well aware of the power of complementary colours. Monet said that 'primary colors seem more brilliant when they are in contrast with their complementary colors'. Van Gogh's 'The Night Cafe' even 'sought to express with red and green the terrible human passions.' Wow. Be careful how you go at the traffic lights.

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Acrylics

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