A Single Eye Changes Everything
Artwork: Poster for The Mummy
Color Harmony: Split Complementary
Key Color: Blue-Green
Link to Palette: Colors on coolors.co
This week’s featured artwork is the poster for The Mummy, featuring a child half-wrapped and mid-scream—a far cry from swashbuckling adventure. At first glance, the palette reads as monochromatic brown. But the small, piercing touch of blue-green in the child’s eye shifts everything. That subtle accent becomes the key color, preventing the design from collapsing into mud.
From there, the harmony fans outward into warm yellows and deep reddish browns, forming a restrained split complementary palette. The result is unsettling rather than flashy. The cool note in the eye feels almost invasive against the suffocating earth tones. It’s a quiet but deliberate signal: this isn’t the kind of Mummy you might be expecting.
