Colour Theory blows my mind! 🎨

[Cab]

This is why people kept thinking Cinderella’s dress was blue until Disney finally gave up and made the merch blue. It was a silver dress at night.

[jasminebambury]

Master level realism. The petals look translucent.

[NoVideolnput]

They still looked blue to me but with white highlights

[Beez-go-buzz]

So that's how the black blue/gold white dress worked

[Kennyisnotdead]

I hate that I don’t understand it, but love how magical it looks when the other colors transform the original ones.

[Artsonist]

This is why setting backgrounds beforehand is so important! Context matters❤

[Nom_.]

I love the illusion of making the flowers look white because of the background its fascinating! ❤

[-Secret]

People dont give artists enough credit. When youve reached this level of understanding on how the art works its incredible, and being able to apply that knowledge is so astounding. This is a great example of how what we see isnt always real. If we all just seen the painting when it was finished we would have never known the flower has always been blue. And we'd go our engire lives not knowing this until someone who pays too much attention revealed the truth.

[rkcon]

Gorgeous painting, truly. I adore the colours and composition

[pinkdruid]

I remember I took an oil painting class in college, and one of the assignments our teachers gave us to help us better understand color theory was to have us create a painting with a limited color pallet. We could all pick from a series of images to recreate. I chose a still-life of some peaches and plums in a ceramic bowl next to some metal cups. Seems pretty easy right? Except the colors I was limited to were white, black, red, and yellow. The plums were blue. Bright blue. How was I supposed to paint blue plums if I wasn’t allowed to use any blue. And so, that was when my teacher explained how using cool toned colors vs warm toned colors, and the specific placement of them next to each other, can change our perceptions of the true colors. For example, mixing a cool-toned black and white together creates a cool toned grey. And when put on a cool-toned background, it will just appear grey. But when put on a warm-toned background (like, for example, next to a bunch of yellow, orange, red, and gold objects) it can look blue. BRIGHT blue! My mind was blown.

[pimn]

this is the best portrayal of colour theory

[GinkgoTree]

Context is everything. We’re now perceiving the blue as a darker shadow where there should be white with daylight cast on the full flower. Brilliant and stunning. ❤

[bbyrdie]

Sometimes it amazes me how much color surrounds us without really noticing. Because our sun gives off warm tinted light, the shadows will be cool tinted. But you don’t really notice!

[Preppy.Peeeeeeeeeep]

My jaw dropped, you truly have such an incredible talent. My nana is like this, she can be painting and all of the sudden all of the colours will shift once one colour is added, and it blows my mind every time. ❤❤

[jungcooque]

to the people saying it's still blue: yes, it is! but now the blue looks like shadow of a white flower, not the main color of the flower. 😊

[Ooger_Booger]

This is awesome, even though it may not have turned out the way you imagined, it is still beautiful. I love the way the “white” still has that blue tint to it and i feel like it elevates the whole painting. Your art is awesome and from my head to my toes to the bottom of my heart, good job. Keep it up and keep making this beautiful art.

[sandraeastern]

Those white flowers have a gorgeous luminosity.

[ranguel]

The highlights stand out impressively.

[ccherry.berryy]

The lighting in the piece is so gorgeous because of it tho!!!

[有]

The white flowers look so luminous, it's amazing! The shadows really create a cool effect on them.