This is the second in a Sunday series on color. It introduces
the most basic color relationship: warm and cool. As I suggested
last time, most books or classes discuss color in an abstract,
theoretical sense. But I’d like to concentrate on the pictorial
application of color. Why, for example, did John Singer Sargent
choose to emphasize those browns and blues in his plein-air
painting of a wrecked sugar refinery, above? I'm sure if you had
taken a color photo of the same subject, it would have looked
nothing like this painting. And why did Alphonse Mucha choose
this particular blue and gold palette to express his deepest
feelings about his homeland? I’d rather give you useful tips
about color that you can apply to your own pictures. So please
forgive me if I don’t approach the subject comprehensively.
Instead I’ll just fast-forward over the concepts that most of
you are already familiar with. Let’s assume that you already
understand the foundation terms: --the color wheel --primaries
and secondaries --the conc