I'm a painter (typically with acrylics), and I made this quick self portrait a few months ago. For this project I recreated a simplified version of it in Illustrator so I could play around with the color dynamics to help with future paintings. Below is the initial image and several variations with corresponding color palettes.

Here's the initial image with its color palette:

Self portrait - image 1 - student project

Here's variation 1 (complementary) and variation 2 (split complementary):

Self portrait - image 2 - student project

Variation 3 (sorta tetradic) and variation 4 (tetradic):

Self portrait - image 3 - student project

Variation 5 and variation 6, both tetradic using different combinations of the same hues:

Self portrait - image 4 - student project

And finally variation 7 (sorta tetradic) and variation 8 (wacky split complementary):

Self portrait - image 5 - student project

And here's the original painting:

Self portrait - image 6 - student project

David Andersson

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