Colour3

I really enjoy the works of Alphonse Mucha and has had a influence on some of the projects ive worked on in the past. As part of art nouveau
he works around nature and has some very interesting colour schemes in some of his works.

http://www.joieart.net/artwork/spotlights/mucha_champagne.jpg
For example here he uses a very warm colour pallete with the orange browns and pinks. It's a good choice of harmonious colours as the orange and browns work very well together and resemble that autumn season. Not forgetting that the colours also work with the tranquillity of the image.
Although the browns and oranges are very vibrant, i feel that they are balanced out with the pink and skin tone colour as they occupy a large space in the image.

http://www.belvedere.at/jart/prj3/belvedere/images/img-db/1211556689000.jpg
Heres an interesting piece using complementary colours. As we can see the dominant colour and tones are blue/green. We see it plastered in the background and around her face, we can see shadows are filled with a subtle blue tint. However the whole image looks faded and the colours are a lot more subtle. This doesn't effect the contrast of the blue and orange though as the orange cloak still jumps out, just not nearly as much as if the colours were more saturated.