by HOWARD SCHATZ, for ZINK MAGAZINE

When examining this piece the first thing you notice is how vibrant and saturated the colors are. The artist seemed to purposefully mix none complementary colors together to create a vibrant piece of artwork. The purple/pink color really intensifies the yellowish green and blues around it. These secondary colors work well together and really attract the eyes to trace all over the plane of her face. The value of the green seems unstable when it is contrasted with the purple vibrancy. The temperature of the picture over all is a very warm feeling ass the colors and intense and have a high value. If the colors were duller then this would give off the opposite and make the overall temperature of the picture appear to be much cooler. The Hues on this picture all seem to be fully saturated as the colors seem to be absorbed when combined with each other on her face. I found that sometimes if I did not look close enough or attentively enough, I would miss some blues on her face against the purple and red. In addition you notice that the artist made selective emphasis in the middle of the face by creating a sort of circular shape where most of the color was calm an didn’t have a combination of a lot of hues and complimentary colors as the outside did. Finally I would say that the colors used in this piece do have some groups of Analogous colors as blue, purple, green and yellow all are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.