You remember the Color Wheel? That funky thing they showed you in high school art classes with blue and red and yellow and all other colors in between. Yes, that's the big wheel. On that wheel you can see which colors "go together" and which ones just don't. Complimentary colors come in pairs, quads, or triples and we humans pretty much have it figured out which ones work together and which ones don't.
Put the right colors together and your eyes send a signal to your brain that says, "Ooohhhh, I like that!" You get a warm and fuzzy feeling inside and everything suddenly feels right in the world. But, if you put colors together that violate the law of complimentary colors, the visual disturbance which results gives you a grating annoyed feeling inside. You want to shout at the artist and say, "You boob! Can't you even get the colors right!"
Call me Mr. Boob, because I broke the law of complimentary colors on my latest piece: "Peacocks." Actually, I only told you half the story...Sometimes artists break the law on purpose - those rascalians - just to leave you with a disturbed feeling about a piece. I wish I could say that I was so clever. No, I just happened to put purple and bright blue along with green and yellow together. It doesn't work to well. Give me a ticket. I broke the law.
The rest of the time I'm working on the table, I'm going to try and fix the problem. Just like most laws of nature, I'm certain that I'm doing a Don Quixote thingy.
You tell me, what do you think of that big purple triangle thing? Uh huh....Just what I thought.
