Presentation for adult and/or school age students as a part of the Color Theory or Painting course. May be interesting to anyone who loves painting and likes exploring colors. Includes examples of the works of the great painters of Impressionist era.

1. red-orange harmony
ANALOGOUS
COLORS

2. Analogous colors are
groups of three or four
that are next to each
other on the color
wheel. Usually, they
include a primary, a
secondary and a
tertiary color.

3. Red-orange color scheme
Today we’ll talk about this color
scheme and where we can see it -
in art and in nature

4. Analogous colors in nature
These color schemes are most often seen in nature. For example, during the fall, one
might often see the changing leaves form an analogous sort of color scheme.

5. Many artists used analogous color
schemes to create a pleasing
gradient effect, rather than
grabbing attention with the
complementary colors.
We can see most of such examples
in the works of impressionists.
Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Apples

6. Claude
Monet’s
analogous
colors in green
Claude Monet, Banks of the Seine

7. Claude Monet’s
analogous colors in
pink and purple
Claude Monet, A Haystack in the Evening Sun

8. Claude Monet’s
analogous
colors in orange
Claude Monet, The Haystacks

9. Fruits and vegetables
We use red-orange color
scheme a lot when we
paint fruits and
vegetables (in still life or
in botanical illustration).
Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Apples