Orbital Mechanics – Tatiana Plakhova (complexitygraphics.com)

The image I chose to use for this blog post is part of Tatiana Plakhova’s Orbital Mechanics series. I believe that this gorgeous image is a great representation of color interaction, especially because the spiderweb of color that makes up the foreground object isn’t large and solid, but rather made up of a thousand smaller lines and dots. The background is extremely desaturated, featuring a primarily black canvas, and in a smaller space, a very faded blue that is used to highlight the saturated foreground colors of green (which is saturated) and white (unsaturated), which both interact with each other to create a beautiful, vibrant foreground that stands out against the unsaturated background colors. There are tints of yellow both on the foreground and background, bleeding out from the foreground image as though actually casting light on the black background. There are a lot of analogous colors in the foreground as opposed to complementary colors. The range of hue is from yellow to green and blue, all of which blend into one another and diminish each other rather than standing out on their own. The colors that make up the globe outline are blue and purple, the two colors bleeding into each other rather than having defined edges that separate them. The intensity of the foreground colors really makes the green and white stand out against the globe, but the black background also makes it really pop for the eye.