How they're my wire religion friends welcome to another great episode of the podcast

I'm Anthony Sweat.

As somebody with an artistic bent personally, I find complementary colors fascinating.

Although they are found on opposite sides of the color wheel, they just go nicely together.

In vision in your mind's eye right now, the Los Angeles Lakers purple in yellow uniforms,

or the red in the green of Christmas decor, or the landscape of a southern Utah orange

rock against a horizon of a deep blue sky.

These complementary color combinations are just naturally pleasing to our eyes.

Artists and designers understand this, and they know how to leverage the power of complementary

colors.

For example, when I paint, I can use them to bring harmonious contrast into an image.

As one complementary color is usually cool, like a blue or a green, and the other is

warm, like an orange or a red.

If I want to paint a really nice shadow on a green pine tree, I add and mix in some

dabs of red to my green.

Oh, that's nice.

That's going to make a happy little tree right there.

If a certain color is maybe a little too loud on the canvas, and I want to tone it down

a little bit, I first look to add a bit of its complement and mix that in first.

These paint colors are powerful together precisely because they're different.

Appear together and utilize correctly, man, can they get the job done.

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