WHEN YOU ARE PAINTING you might mix complementary colours to make a neutral grey and when designing colour schemes you might choose to juxtapose complementary colours for maximum contrast of hue. In this drawing, we’ll be using them for the latter purpose, keeping the two colours largely separate for a non-representation colour scheme that draws attention to the expressive features of the face.
If we define complementary colours as those which sit opposite one another on the colour wheel, we can run into the problem that different colour wheels apportion different amounts of their circumferences to named hues. Thus, one colour wheel might present red and green as opposite one another, while another
