Jason Mervyn Hibbs

Red and Green Should Never Be Seen

A painting of two models from sketches on two separate occasions using only red, green and white paint.

I don’t paint often, but when I do… I’m glad that I did. I wasn’t hoping for much in this exercise — to use only complementary colours and white — but we had a few hours to play with and I had been meaning to do this for a long time. Glad.

Who said red and green should never be seen? I think I’m satisfied with the answer that states that if you’re on a boat and you see red and green on the water, there is another boat headed directly for you. Unless it’s headed directly away from you… but having said that, perhaps it’s unlikely that you would come across a ship headed directly away from you. Except for very slow-moving boats, maybe. Hm.

Maybe it’s just good advice for Christmas Card designers.