Creating form in painting with contrasting colour

How do we do achieve form in painting without sacrificing colour tone. Are you an artist that rely heavily on earth tone colour to create great form? Or you are perhaps the colourist who create paintings with loosely stated form.

Colour can be used to model a form in painting. In a monochromatic painting, we would often mix varying amounts of black and white colour to show the progressive change in light around an object. Using opposite colour is a very powerful technique. If you choose to use only value and temperature, then the effect will not be as powerful as using contrasting colours.

Complementary colour palettes lead to paintings which have a strong colour. If you limit the colour palette to just two families, the colour mixtures are related and you will hence create an atmospheric effect in your painting !

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