Original artwork description:

It is not an original conceit for an artist to paint pictures in the 'wrong' colors. It is a lazy way of grabbing attention. The fauves ('wild beasts') - such as Matisse, Dufy, Derain - cottoned on to this early in the 20th century, and ran with it for as long as they could. Like most new art movements, it then takes hold, gets copied/modified endlessly, and never really goes away. So this picture is nothing out of the ordinary. However, I didn't just paint this picture in complimentary colors, ie, those on the opposite sides of the color wheel: blue to orange, red to green, yellow to purple. Like an idiot I made up my own color scheme, based on what I thought might look OK. This was unclever. I spent half the time giving myself a nervous breakdown over which color to use, and where. This was much harder than just painting the picture as it should be. Not that artists should always take the easy option of course. But art is a job, like any other, and no one likes unplanned for and unnecessary complications. I haven't yet painted another picture like this.

Materials used:

Acrylic paint