I realize that the legion of fans for “Solar Eclipse” and “Onyx Moonstone” will not agree with this! Those colors have sold very well for Windstone and Gina does a great job painting them.
Having said that – I used to say that “Anything looks good with black” but I have changed my mind. In my opinion, antiquing with color (having color between the black scales) does not look good with black.
I don’t actually care for black combined with red or orange, just not my preferred colors, but I do actually think the antiquing here is interesting. It gives the effect of burning embers or lava.