The document discusses the use of color theory in the creation of a self-portrait painting called "Ong Lai Zai". Primary and secondary colors were used to make the work easy on the eyes. An analogous color scheme of blue, blue-green and green was used for the hair. Yellow was used for the body to represent happiness. Orange and white were blended for the face, hands and legs to depict immaturity. Light orange was the background color to convey warmth. Violet was used for the cap and hair tie to symbolize ambition. Shadows and values were incorporated to make the work look natural. Color theory brought benefits to the artwork and daily life by showing how to pair colors to create an aesthetically pleasing piece

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3. Since many people describe me seem as a cartoon, I created a painting which
look like a cartoon to reflect myself in my final artwork .Its name is “Ong Lai Zai”
inspired by a pineapple. .Ong Lai Zai totally reflect me because it is short same with
me also the gesture sign cool represented my inners actually is entirely different
with my appearance mean I am an independence person who was not like a child
that need someone to accompany or take care. Furthermore ,I have inserted some
elements about basic Colour Theory that I have learnt in the painting .I started the
work by using colour based on colour wheel that is Primary Colour and Secondary
colour so that the work will easy on eyes. Following by the step ,I chose a group of
Analogous colour which is BLUE, BLUE GREEN and GREEN as its hair so that it was
not look too bland if just colour its hair with green .Meanwhile ,I used yellow on its
body to represent the feeling of happiness and joyful. Orange blend with white to
its face ,hands and legs because orange colour bring the feel of immature like a
child .In addition I used light orange as background of work to show the feeling of
warmth .Moreover ,violet colour as the cap and the tie on its hair be typical of my
ambition because ambition is a part of symbolic of violet. The ‘E’ word on the cap
be the abbreviation of emotion mean I am a person living by ambition with the
positive emotions. Last but not least, I involved the use of value to make the whole
work look nature especially the shadow part. Actually the shadow including the
violet at the bottom part in order to reflect the inners of me .Purple be typical of
spiritual reflect me was a person care about spiritual also thought
comprehend .Sometimes I were sad but I seldom show out which represent by the
black colour and the grey colour to show the feeling of ignore because grey with
the feeling like “Don’t close with me ,I am busying now “ mean that I prefer alone
and enjoy myself.
As a conclusion ,colour study is apparently bring a lot of merits in our artwork
and daily life .For instance, I realise how to pair the colour so as to create an easy
on eyes artwork at the same time can show the feeling to touch others by the
theory of colour psychology .That is all for my present ,thank you.^^