In Redcliffe State Park

This drawing is finished by Wolf Kahn in 1999, it is well known as “In Redcliff State Park”. He was using pastel as the medium to finish this drawing and this piece of drawing was in 35.56x43.18 cms

In this drawing, he had use split-complementary and complementary colour as the main colour to complete this art work, the reason he use split-complementary and complementary colour is because he want to show strongly contrast in this art work and bring more depth-in-field.

Beside, blue was used at background colour and represent sky, yellow and orange was use as the main colour in foreground to bring more contrast to the sky and show a strongly contrast in this whole art work. Blue was use to represent trust, honesty and loyalty, beside, blue seeks peace and tranquillity above everything else, promoting both physical and mental relaxation. It reduces stress, creating a sense of calmness, relaxation and order, and the positive keywords of blue were loyalty, trust and integrity, tactful, reliability and responsibility, conservatism and perseverance, caring and concern, idealistic and orderly, authority, devotion and contemplation, peaceful and calm.

Next, in the middle ground, there is a house with yellow-orange roof top and which yellow represent uplifting and illuminating, offering hope, happiness, cheerfulness and fun, while orange is also represent warmth and happiness, combining the physical energy and stimulation of red with the cheerfulness of yellow.

In this piece of art work, the colour he used is not only yellow, orange and blue, it also grey, black and a little bit of green to brings the whole piece of art work complete. In the other hand, there is also a little bit of peach colour in the down left corner to bring more contrast and brings more complexity to the whole art work.