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Bold Colour Pairing

  It's been a long time since creating a tag for the Tag Tuesday  fortnightly challenge....  The current theme is 'orange and purple' .   I made this tag for the challenge as a collage constructed from magazine pages , with a photo transferred as another layer. The photo is one of a tree in my street  and from a laser print, I  transferred  part of it  to the collage background with acrylic medium. With such bold colours, the silhouette of the tree branches seems to enhance the vibrancy of these colours.  I am always interested in working out why colours seem to "go together" , so it's always good to go back to the colour wheel.  While not quite analogous, orange and purple are close  secondary colour neighbours  and they present as a brilliant pairing as they also come from the opposite hot/cool families of colour.  We only have to look at Nature to see how well orange and purple go together.    References...