My mom requested a valentines day style painting, and I love how the flamingos look, but I hate this background. Id love some suggestions on how to change it. That can mean adapting the current background in some way, or completely covering it and doing something new. I have no problem doing that.
Can anyone offer their ideas? Thanks in advance.
Okay, I see now what you’re saying but you have to admit, saying “make it green then” when we’re talking about a specific thing, a sunset, sounds like your “it” is the thing we’re talking about.
Contrast also isn’t as easy as just putting complementary colours next to each other.
Agreed. I guess I feel like the artist should take some responsibility for their work. A sunset doesn’t have to be red. Maybe the flamingos are on some green grass with a large orange sun right behind them and a blue sky. That would be simple and maybe help the birds stand out more. Or they could be on blue water with a yellow sun and grey clouds. It’s not rocket science. If they want contrast and don’t have much space to work with, they have to get creative. All I had to do was google it and I got heaps of ideas. I was trying to help but was in bed about to go to sleep and didn’t have much time or energy to respond. Hence my short suggestion to just make it green then if they don’t like red or orange.