How Luc Tuymans Uses Complementary Colors: Palette and Color Study of 'The Rabbit'

In this video I explore the contemporary artist Luc Tuymans's enigmatic painting 'The Rabbit', and use it to show how two-color mixing can be used for complementary colors by mixing the palette and producing a Color Study.

Along the way we will see what a great painter Tuymans is, and how his work shares surprising similarities with Cezanne in his brushwork, color choice and way of laying down paint.

The palette I use is quite small:
- yellow ocher
- burnt sienna
- ultramarine blue
- phthalo blue
- titanium white
but this is enough to mix a wonderful range of subtle, shifting grays and browns. I also explain the place of complementary colors in Color Theory, and how to work out which colors to choose for the gray that you want mix.

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