What color is your shade?
Feb 4th, 2011 by Lisa
(Photpgraph © by Eva Stoerch)
This picture shows exactly what I’m trying to explain to many aspiring artists: Shadow during daylight is BLUE – here is the proof!
The color of the sunlight is not very visible to our human eye, but it is sligtly orangy-yellow in winter, ergo the shadow is the complimentary color.
If you could take the same picture in the midst of high bright-yellow summer sun, the shadow would be much more purple.
Experiments with light in a dark room will show you the same result. Use a projector and slides in primary colors yellow, red, blue and a object to cast a shadow on a white background. The object will show the shade in the complimentary color.
Try it, you’ll be surprised.
