Matisse Horse Painting Critical Analysis

1) The dominant complementary colour scheme started off being the purple and yellow on the horse. But the orange and the blue in the background was more dominant so the orange and blue ended up being the dominant complementary colour scheme. I chose these colours because I really like them and I thought orange and blue in the back would look good with purple and yellow in the front. It turned out to be very cool and I like it a lot.

2) The only pattern that I used was the purple and yellow in the horse. The main body and the front and back leg were purple. The mane, tail and the two middle legs were yellow. I did this to add some variety rather than emphasis or a focal point.

3) The painting started off as a real portrait of a horse. I then transferred it to the nutex sheet. Once it was on the nutex, I distorted it into Matisse's type of style. Once that was done, I created a fitting background on a seperate nutex sheet and started painting. A difficulty that came by me was making the colour brown for the mountain the horse is standing on. It took a while for me to get the right colour. Once I got it, I transferred the Matisse horse to pieces of nutex, that I painted different colours, and cut the horse pieces out. Then I glued the pieces on and got a product. I thought it looked too plain so I added blue stars to improve it. I made the stars blue because it would be complementary with the orange.