Unlike the simplicity of the earlier painting, Close's self portrait is far more complex: based on a photograph, then reproduced as a painting, then reproduced as a print using multiple blocks to achieve the full colour effect, the work is a complex array of diamond-shaped coloured lozenges that fit together, jigsaw-like into an image.
How Start with the ombré painting technique for a gradient colour effect.
The same kind of colour control with filters is again possible, but the colour effect of the subtractive filters or of the additive filter exposures is reversed.
Take inspiration from Marni, where the autumn/winter models' lips were made to look as if they'd overindulged in red wine via a stained colour effect.
As it happens, Pink Chameleon is a good book, for the right age group, but I certainly wouldn't have read it if it hadn't been for our little colour effect discussion.
They are closely set, to the tips of the tiniest twigs; their buds being crimson and the protruding anthers iron-grey, the colour effect in the mass, when illuminated by stormy sunshine, is almost menacing; on a still clear day, with a pale blue sky behind them, they become almost pink.
Use different colours, for colour effect.
Also, if you decide to put, both the colours and the effects together, then always remember to put them in this structure :- colour:effect:(your message).
Given the colour palette of the samples, it is doubtful that manganese had any colouring or de-colouring effect in these glasses.
