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Color choices of some of the most popular paintings, that I am comparing, are keeping their colors simple. They seem to have painted mainly with analogous, or complimentary, or triadic color schemes. The more simple the color scheme, the more popular it seemed to be.
And finally, the last thing that I am noticing is a LOT of emphasis on lines and contrasting (mostly diagonal) lines that are used in certain proportions.
This would be a really interesting thing to do on a portrait with the values, colors, and diagonals and proportions, and the overlapping of those lines that create depth.
I actually put this to a test by using just the simplest color schemes on pieces that I took the the World Show in July at Atlanta, Ga. I sold every one of them.
Does a complimentary color scheme make it more simple and therefore desirable? What about analogous?
Ok, that is what I am seeing besides the usual "correct" placement, and other important but generally known "tricks".
Like I said in the beginning. Perhaps you all already new this, but it is only with the in- depth comparisons that I have done this past summer that it started to become clear that this is, at the very least, a very common thread of many of the most popular and best selling prints.
I wonder if this is why I admire the paintings of Julian Robles of Taos so much.
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