Nov 6th, 2009 | Art survey
Should I add Yellow to this painting?
I painted this still life of paper polyhedra and a white plaster bird. I set up red and blue colored lights on it to get the different colored shadows, and pulled up a chair and painted this in oil.
It's dry enough now to glaze over the whole thing, and I was thinking about using a golden yellow, lightly brushed over the top. The yellow would interact with the blue, making it greenish, and it would also interact with the red for an orange kind of mixture.
Should I do it? Or does it look fine the way it is?
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I think, now that the painting been painted adding yellow will only interfer with the colours that are already there. Oil painting is hard.
If you add yellow wouldn't it give the painting a 3Dish look? (and added 3D look)
I think so too. I plan to do it tomorrow morning.
Nice work on all the shadows. A warm yellow like room lighting would probably look good.