 we're here for another video from my creative year for August of 2020. If for some reason you found this on YouTube and you don't know what my creative year is it's a Facebook art group and this video is unlisted so I don't know how you did that but welcome. And if you want to join the link for the art group is in the description below. This year for 2020 we're working on color and we're playing with colors and color combinations and using color in our work and using color in different ways and just experimenting and this month we're talking about complementary colors. So for those that don't know complementary colors are colors on the opposite side of one another on the color wheel generally basic complementary colors. Years ago I took a class with Melinda Kutsuna and if you don't know who she is fabulous artist and I will link her website down below and she had us take a color wheel not unlike this one this one is tended for watercolor paintings but this is the one I used in the class it looks nearly identical and she had us take the back which originally looked something like this with these little windows and this arrow so if you put it here to this orange the complement to that is straight across the color wheel to here. Now you can do a split complementary and get three colors you can do a triad which is a little bit spread farther apart and then what's this other one tetrad which is four colors complementing each other in like four corners of the color wheel and then you have the tones of color for each color. She had us take the little windows off because she thought that they were just very distracting and I have to say I still refer to this one sometimes and she literally yeah we just cut them off and you know I didn't necessarily want that other information on there but it just was very simple to you know if you're not sure what is what is the opposite of you know green again oh yeah red so complementary colors so what I would love for you to do and I don't expect you to do with a split go to a split complementary or the triad or anything more complicated than something opposite of each other on the color wheel you can of course if you want but what I would love for you to do is just pick your what's your favorite color one of my favorite colors is sort of a blue green teal-y color so then I want you to this month work with your favorite color and then I want you to look at the color wheel and figure out what the complementary color to that is and see how you can combine the two of those into some artwork this month for the blue green it's an orange red so I would love to see what you guys do with that this month and incorporate that into your work now keep in mind if you are part of my creative year maybe you're not inspired by complementary colors maybe you're not inspired by the daily word or working with color at all this month we do have a daily word list to inspire you for work that also is going to post with this video on the first of august but maybe none of that inspires you I want you to say so in the group I want you to post something and say you know I know this month we're working with complementary colors and today the word is blah blah blah but I'm just not inspired by any of that so I made this today I want you to share your work whatever it is of course if you can work with the prompts and the words let's have you do that and let's share and share the journey share the inspiration share the struggle if you're struggling to be inspired that's what the group is for and I would love to see you do that keep it art related and the art journey related we are making a lot of changes to the group going forward and we have deleted some old content if you're looking for it and it's something that you needed to refer back to let me or one of the admins know tag us in a post and we will see what we can do to recover the content for you but you know it's going to be interesting going forward we are going to keep the group open for 2021 we are working on themes and daily word inspirations and that sort of thing for the group so if you have ideas or something you'd like to see let us know and yeah it's going to be pretty fun and pretty exciting and the rest of this year at least where art is concerned and not the rest of life and 2021 looks to be equally as fun and exciting I will tell you too that when I am most of the I have these huge giant color wheels most of the time I just use this little one um it's the same only pocket size this one's very handy and easy to have they're not expensive but if you don't have um the maybe you don't have the budget you can't get out to go get one hello because you know pandemic and if you don't know what I'm talking about that you're watching this in the future google 2020 you'll figure it out um you can download color wheels from the internet just do a google image search and you probably can find something that's printable um but they're not expensive this was I think less than a dollar where I got it um so yeah um complementary colors what is the opposite of purple yellow opposite of blue is orange opposite of green is red yellowish green is red violet I mean you know the list just goes on and on and on so I want you to experiment with complementary colors and also I would love to see you all experiment with using the colors on the warmer side of the color wheel for your highlight colors and the colors on the cooler side of the color wheel for your shadow colors rather than black and white and you can take that a step further and if you're going to say use violet as your shadow color what's the opposite of that for your highlight color yeah so there's all different things like that you can do with it so I would love to see you do that whether it's um photography or drawing or painting maybe you want to see if you're a writer you want to see what can I do with the idea of complementary colors um in my writing I don't know where you'd go with that I'm not a writer by nature necessarily but the idea is interesting I don't know if you can go anywhere with that but the idea is interesting so I'd love to see what you do don't forget to support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups not just for me but for all of your favorite creatives most of us have a way to um have you support the free content um check out the video description there's a lot of ways um I know in the Facebook art group we usually have links I don't remember if we left them we're not to be honest um but if you can't figure it out private message us tag us in the post we can share what the way is to support free content for me the easy one is etsy but I also have patreon paypal tip jar like a bunch of stuff so um but most of your favorite creatives have a way and if you can't figure it out um ask them because they're probably you know for whatever reason just not publishing it but I'm sure most of them have a way so ask don't forget to stay safe stay healthy stay creative and above all go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys