URGENT! do i use warm colours to make an object in a picture stick out?

Question

if i paint a picture, to make a rock stick out, do i make it warmer than the background or colder?

Answer 1

Here's the rule, cool colors recede (think of distant mountains, they are a cool blue or violet color) and warm colors advance (think green grass, wheat fields with mountains in distance). You can make the rock warmer (red or yellow), or you can model it more by showing deeper shadows and more highlighting and that way it appears more three-dimensional and will come out more. good luck.

Answer 2

Yes, you use warm colours to make something stick out.

Another tip is to keep your strong contrasts in the foreground, with the background with much less contrast. However, in order for the picture to have some kind of cohesion, whatever warm colours you use to bring out the rock in your foreground will need to be in other parts of the picture as well. Examine the great landscape painters and you'll see what I mean. They are Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Monet, Grace Henry, Tony O'Malley ...

Answer 3

Generally, foreground and middleground should be painted warmer and larger, or with thicker outline.
Background is usually smaller, fainter, bluer, or with thinner outlines, or none at all.

Try backgrounds in greys using your reds/yellows/blues mixtures, where blue plays more of a major part.Remember, good perspective will help to 'distance' your background.

Of course, the trick of good shadow placing ties the whole thing together. There's a whole study on shadow colours...let someone else tell you those!

Answer 4

make it lighter and the object will stand out.practise on some paper and notice how you can make objects stand out,almost any object with a darker background will stick out.
keep up the questions and you will learn.but carry on painting and dont be scared to explore

Answer 5

Wich kind of picture? It'a a lanscape? a marine? an abstract?
To be classical (Occidental, of course), make a background colder and clearer than the central figure.

Answer 6

Warm or cold. doesn't matter as long as it is in sufficient contrast to the rest of the painting.