1) Complimentary Portrait (Blue & Orange)
2) Monochrome (Pthalo Blue)
3) Split Complimentary (Blue-Green, Orange & Red)
4) Triadic (Green, Violet, Orange)
I don’t think I’m a huge fan of the complimentary color portraits. I don’t really care for the contrast of the colors against each other. My favorite is the monochrome, in general. I think monochromes tend to look cinematic and soothing in a way. For my split complimentary color scheme, I used orange and red, but added black to darken each and thought it actually made them easier on the eye. For my triadic, this was a (not so great) attempt at painting the aurora. I’m pretty sure I went about it all wrong and if I were to try again I would approach it differently. Anyway, this scene seems meant for a triadic color scheme: a deep violet night sky, the green grass and aurora and the orange path and lights off in the distance. I had a hard time photographing this picture though. I have a bit of glare on the right hand side.
I really like your portrait a lot! I think that the way that you chose to softly shade things really lends to the fact that you were drawing a child which is soft and new (that’s the weirdest way I could’ve described that ha ha!) Great job!