Magenta - Orange is a photograph by Nikolyn McDonald which was uploaded on October 19th, 2017.
Magenta - Orange
This post was painted exactly the colors you see here: magenta (or magenta hot pink as our granddaughter is fond of calling the purplish-red on the... more
Title
Magenta - Orange
Artist
Nikolyn McDonald
Medium
Photograph
Description
This post was painted exactly the colors you see here: magenta (or magenta hot pink as our granddaughter is fond of calling the purplish-red on the bottom) and orange. The textures of the wood of this architectural detail show through clearly, but it is the colors that stand out and catch the eye.
Magenta is one of the four colors of ink used in color printing; it is made of equal parts of red and blue. Its name comes from a town of the same name in Italy - or rather from a battle between the French and Austrians that was fought there and in which the French were the victors. It won't surprise you to learn that the chemist who patented the color, François-Emmanuel Verguin, was French.
Orange is a mixture of yellow and red, a secondary color named after the fruit. In nature, whether in fruits and vegetables or in autumn leaves, the color comes from carotenes, a photosynthetic pigment.
Featured: Best of Minimalism
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October 19th, 2017
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Comments (7)
Bob Lentz
Congratulations! on being voted Artist for October 16-31 by members of the Best of Minimalism group on FAA.
Bob Lentz
Congratulations! This simple and essential image has been selected by group members as a Featured Image in the Best of Minimalism group.
Jilian Cramb - AMothersFineArt
Fabulous. This would be so stunning on the wood canvas. a POD in best of minimalism! craving sherbert now........... Tweet!
Nikolyn McDonald replied:
Thank you, Jilian. That's an interesting thought . . . but the grain on the wood canvas runs across, not up and down, so I think it would not look great. Maybe I'll take a look at rotating this one. I think I would have to put the soft focus area at the top rather than the bottom. That would work for me for the direction of the diagonal, but I'm thinking I would prefer the soft focus area up the side as it is. Off to check :)
Nikolyn McDonald replied:
Nope :) Though it's in shadow, the left is very soft, too. I like it much better vertically.
Gary Slawsky
I like the offset horizontal lines and different lighting on similar planes in foreground and background. GREAT WORK! F/L and my minimalism group POD for 10/28/17.
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