This painting depicts four elements of nature. Earth, water, and fire are represented by characters, and wind is found in the blowing trees and grass and billowing clouds. The light from the fire character reflects off the water and earth people, who seem to be trying to escape or look away. The fire person looks back towards the viewer innocently.
This work was done last week in one sitting. I had recently cleaned my palette completely, and had only put back four colours back, a pale yellow, a warm red, a blue and a pink. The simple colour scheme helps bring unity to the elements, the warm salmon tones of the fire reflects off the water and the earth and the ground. I have used local complementary colour schemes in several spots, above the fire head it is a purple-yellow scheme, by the rear of the earth man there is a red-green scheme, and the water man brings in a blue-orange complement with the fire man.
Elemental Equation, watercolour 11 x 15" cold press, 2011 (No. 1462)
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