You should definately not adhere to almost anything slavishly, that road has a tendancy to lead down a seriously non creative route. For me it's a very handy tool on the PC because while with real watercolours, colour is instinctive for me, with computers it's much harder. Not sure why, I just don't think it behaves the same, but then thats the same of watercolours and oils, everything has it's own rules. As far as colour theory goes, there have been times when, after much care and work an image just looks rotten and it's usually one of two things, colour or composition. Colour theory has helped me out of a hole or two there. Composition is a whole other subject, that verges on frying my brain so I won;t get into that :) Anyway take care everyone, I don't intend for this to be offensive to anyone, so please don't take offense :) John "remember we are all 60% banana"

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