Welcome to Art Class. This series focuses on specific techniques and concepts designed to help develop skills.

In this contest you are to illustrate the theme "Complementary Colors". In same way light and dark relationships can enhance and define an image, color relationships are important tools. Using complementary colors is a necessary art fundamental.

Guidelines:

• You are to simply utilize one or more sets of complementary colors as the focus of your entry. Use complementary colors to your advantage; make it clear they are a focus of the piece.

• Be creative, try new things, and most of all, have fun!

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While the above would normally suffice, for clarity, beginners, and geeks (like the author of this description), here's some more specific info and preemptive answers:

- Complementary Colors are colors which are on opposite sides of the color wheel. Example: Red and Green. Every color has a complement, not just Primary and Secondary colors. While combinations such as Blue and Yellow work well together (see: way too many logos), we are looking looking for Complementary Colors as a specific art term, not colors that play well together.

- Here's a very cool tool! The "synonyms" and "antonyms" are complementary.

- Don't worry, we won't be color sampling and using calculators to adjudicate, just keep the colors in complementary ranges. (Red & Green, Crimson & Green, Red & Forest Green, whatever... It's all good!)

- Your colors don't have to be solid. A bunch of painterly roses that utilize a host of red and green colors of differing values is more than okay. (Sorry to ruin roses for anyone... well, not really, they're too easy. ;))

- No, you don't have to only use complementary colors (a yellow dog on a purple background) but you just can't take any colorful illustration and say "they're in there somewhere". As with just about any contest, and especially Art Class: Make the theme obvious to the voters.

- We are using the RED-YELLOW-BLUE color model. Complementary colors are to be found on a scale that uses RYB as its Primary Colors. RGB is a no no. If you don't know what that means, you are probably safe.

- When in doubt, ask your local illustration admin.

Please take the extra few minutes and list/link your references, as per the illustration guidelines.

The rules of the game are thus: In any style or medium, create an image for the theme "Complementary Colors", in accordance with Worth's illustration contest rules. NO PHOTO TRACING, PAINTOVERS OR CLOSE REFERENCE. You'll have 7 (seven) days for this contest, so make your submission count.