Image Essay #14

This work of art is done by Nicole Etienne. It is a great example of use of secondary colors. In this example, I chose to portray what it looks like to use the color orange. Etienne used red and yellow to create the orange that is used in this painting. What I enjoy about this example is on the fruit, you can see all of the colors that make up that certain shade of orange. I think it is brilliant that she made the fruit look so shapely and did so by using variations in the color.

The example of the pears is representational of the secondary color, green. The viewer can see that the green color is made up of yellow and blue. The highlights of color on the pear is of the color yellow, in different variations and shades. There is green around the pear, but where there are shadows near the table, you can see small amounts of blue, which make up the green. I think this work is also interesting to show how the color is contrasted with the primary colors it is made of.

I think these two examples show how artists can use the primary colors that are components of the secondary colors to accentuate the color that is trying to be portrayed.