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>>2645916
You can see colour theory in nature. When you have two colours beside eachother one of them is warm - the other cold. This can be seen on a road in the summer. The asfalt in the sun can have an almost yellow or orange light while the shadows are often grayish blue or purple.

But shadows doesn't need to be cold, they can be warm - as long as the other colour is cold.

Raw umber (green tone) and burnt umber (red tone) are cold and warm when you put them together.

Instead of using black to mix a darker shade, use the contrast colour. Mixing a little red into green makes a darker green - and more red you will eventually get black.

The law of colour theory describe what we see. That is why realistic painters use this method because their motive seem more natural in colour.

This all sounds very weird, but when you begin to understand it all makes sense.