BM's Quiet Moments is the one that comes to mind first.

So you think a lighter color than the overall tone of the picture would be better than a darker tone than the picture?

What about something live Savannah Clay or Sharon Rose? I'm looking at how the peach and orange "pop" in the clouds in the painting.

I think putting the painting against a blue wall would take away from the impact.

Savannah Clay is pretty...I don't know if DH will like an almost pink wall in the bathroom, though. I was really thinking darker, and those colors are darker.

cangelmd-

I only have a laptop, so that this with a shaker of salt, but what about BM Aura Adventurine or Jojoba or, if you really want to go dark, BM Aura Wenge, a deep brown, kind of the color of the tree trunks in your art.

I agree that darker is the way to go, a green or brown would both work IMO.

sandyponder

If you want it to pop, place it's complementary color next to it. Since the majority of the painting is blue, then on the color chart, the complementary color is a yellow hue.

Interesting picture. I agree a very soft yellow or possibly a lighter tone of the green which you could just get color matched. I have picture that is primarily blues with some hints of green in it and our wall is green, it totally makes the colors in the picture stand out.

Thanks for the suggestions. I originally was going to paint the wall green, but the greens in he picture are really celery and avocado, and I wasn't sure if I was that bold! I got some celery and very pale blue washcloths and they look outstanding with the picture, I thought I would use those with white towels for accents. I will check out those colors at the paint store tomorrow.

I actually have putnam ivory in my Masterbath, love it, and it does have a yellowish goldish cast to the tan. I have different colors than what you are describing for the rest of the room-
(cherry wood, dark granite etc) but
I think you are right to suggest it- and I think it would be a great background to the painting.

cangeland, I understand what you mean about greens, they aren't for everyone. For fun, I was toying around with the painting and did some frames in different colors to help give you a visual. I was pretty surprised to see which one I liked the best because it was very unexpected. These are SW colors, and in person may not be the right color at all, but on my monitor they seemed to work.

Artisan Tan:

Naval Blue:

Perfect Griege

Saguaro Green

Sturdy Brown

Wow, the Navy Blue is amazing...I just wish it went with the rest of the room LOL. I prefer the darker colors. Now I've got to convince myself that I want a truly dark color on the bathroom wall, adter I've been working so hard to make it light and bright.

Why not the Sparkling wine?

The tints of blue in this are almost tertiary on the color wheel and the Sparkling Wine is a light tint of the tertiary complementary orange.

I think it may pop just fine on the wall color you have picked, and an accent wall may just complicate matters.

Palimpset, you have a point, especially since the ceiling will be blue. We are also considering a complicated solution:
The painting is acually 3D on the top and sides, therefore it cannot have a conventional frame. What if we built a frame to outline the picture on the wall, painted the interior area a dark color and floated the painting within the frame so that the painted wall looked like a mat behind the picture? then the rest of the wall would be Sparkling Wine.

I am no color expert at all. I know you were playing with some of the greens in the Affinity collection. I have Wasabi, and as much as I was scared to death to paint in this color, I love it. It really is acting like a neutral beause so many colors go with it.

Ask your BM dealer to loan you some of the large samples (5x7) that they have in a binder. Take those home and hold them up behind the painting and see what you think.

Everyone here always has such great suggestions. Here is my Wasabi wall, see how it works with the grays and purples? That's a marble top on the table and it plays nicely with that as well.

I think the painted "mat" behind the painting could be a possibility both because it is related only to the painting and not accent the wall and because it is relatively reversible or changeable. I would start with the sparkling wine and see how it looks. I tend to think of how museums allow artwork to be displayed on a neutral background rather than a highly coordinated background, for the most part.

Bee, that is a lovely room, and a lovely color. the pillows look scrumptious, and you're right, the green is a rich neutral. I really like the Affinity colors, they do seem to work together and look very sophisticated. The downside is that I have to drive across town to get the Aura paint!

I'd go with a deeper chocolate with a bit of yellow in it (like the trees but as deep as the navy). We were just in a fabulous gallery and their art was displayed on either gloss white or gloss ohhh so deep blues, chocolates and mustards approaching that wasabi above (gorgeous by the way). Gloss also really makes art pop.

I was looking at a dark taupe, not as pink as the tree trunks, more the color of some of the brown in the grass, that you can't see well in the photo. The true color of the tree trunks doesn't mesh with my tile as well as the slightly "greened" shade. I'm leaning toward Palimpset's idea, it certainly would make my husband happy.

My heband is muchly excited about painting all the walls the same color...I think he has moved into renovation overload. The cabinet paint color decision was stressful, and more of a compromise than "wow that looks gorgeous". Buying the painting was that kind of moment.

cangelmd, I don't see the links you refer to in your post.

Having a hard time getting this to work:

http://s1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd389/cangelmd/
The box wants to truncate the HTML or maybe it is corrupted, not sure

Here is a link that might be useful: Surfaces and lighting