What's That color Scheme?

Explore and discover how artists use color schemes, by reducing their images to a grid of colors. Then organize the colors into their position on the color wheel.

Last, post the colors and write a description of the color scheme on your blog...

Select and post TWO images from both Hockney and Monet's artwork..... this works best on large size images.... do you notice a constant color scheme that they use?

Here's my example....

I used Hockney's painting...... Winter Timber, 2009 oil on 15 canvases 108 x 240inches

Here is the "Mosaic" filter I used to create a grid of colors....

 I experimented with the size of the mozaic pieces to get the best results...

Here is what happened to the painting..... makes it easier to see the source colors..

Use the rectangular selection tool to copy and paste colors from the grid to a new layer....

 

I organized the colors to describe where they fit on to the color wheel...

Looks like Hockney is using a SPLIT COMPLEMENT color scheme of orange and blue- splitting the blue all the way to green and purples, and using shades of orange for contrast.

P.S. Check out this nice article about Hockney I just found.... what a great example of a creative artist!!

See it here @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/arts/design/18kino.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0