"Complementary Colours in the Viking Age" Topic

Following up on my last post about dyes, I've just been blogging about how the best painters skillfully combine colours to produce outstanding results. Whilst I can't match this standard of painting, I think I understand some of the basic principles that make such colour schemes work:
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Hope it's of interest.

Definitely some interesting refinements of complementary colors; well worth the read!

Green was not one of the colors in the pallet. Damn.

Nice job doing a primer on color theory. Everyone should have a basic sense of this in my opinion and diagrams are a useful tool for the uninitiated or the colorblind, and even for those with some background in design. I found your post on dyes especially instructive. Thanks for the excellent work. There are also rules about apposition of colors in heraldry, although perhaps not applicable to the period.

This is excellent – just what I was looking for before I start to paint my late Saxons.

Really looking forward to the third part. Just a suggestion, but for those of us who 'dip' it might be worth indicating more saturated versions of the colours/combinations you think best for dark ages. I think the dip (Army Painter etc.) de-saturates as much as it darkens.

This is excellent – just what I was looking for before I start to paint my late Saxons.

Yes it is (excellent)! Thanks for sharing it, should clear many a mental painting block, for me especially.

Cheers,

Glad it's of use. I intend to dip my figures too, so I'll post what they look like when they're done. I'm new to this scale and era so approach this will a little trepidation.