of the colors in the composition.
Color accents are usually more highly chromatic than the rest of the picture. If you restrict the entire image to something close to a monochromatic scheme, anything different will jump out and grab the viewer.
In the photo above, the orange color of the shop at night creates a magnet for the attention. Color accents don’t have to be used only for the main focus of interest. They can also be added as a seasoning throughout a picture, to provide relief from large areas of unrelieved hues.
If you have a picture with a strong blue cast, it can help to sneak in a little yellow or orange here and there—just a set of floating dots or an outline, or a weird reflection in a window. This becomes a matter of taste and of momentary inspiration, keeping your color scheme from being too mechanical or predictable.
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Learn more in my Gumroad tutorial TRIADS: Painting with Three Colors.
Or in my book Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
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