Cool over dark?
Thank you Steven for posting this information, this is a book I'm not familiar with. But I'm confused about this part from the book:
[QUOTE=Steven Sweeney]All colors look cool over dark, even red and yellow; all colors look warm over light, even blue. [ QUOTE]
What if I'm painting an underpainting and the shadow side is naturally darker. If my subject is in natural light (cool light) then my shadow should be warm. Am I to understand that no matter what I paint over the dark of my underpainting on the shadow side that my shadow will be cool? How can this be? I'm equally confused about the "all colors look warm over light" because the light side of my model would be in the cool light.
I suppose I must be missing something but I am perplexed by this!
thanks,
Joan
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