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Analogous colour scheme: Uses three or more colours that sit next to each other on the colour wheel. Monochromatic colour scheme: Uses tints, tones, and shades ...
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Most of us understand the basics of the colour wheel, from primary and secondary colours to how certain colour combinations work together. However, how you interpret the colour wheel can be so much more than simply knowing how to mix and mingle red, yellow, blue, orange, purple, and green. Knowing the various colour schemes helps boost our colour knowledge and is essential for creatives, such as artists and designers.
Although it is fun to experiment with colour schemes by choosing colours randomly based on our personal preferences, there are some colour combinations called “harmonic colour schemes” that are considered particularly pleasing. Harmonic colour schemes consist of two or more colours on the colour wheel that have a specific relationship based on their position and distance from one another. Before we discuss the basics, it helps if you are familiar with some of the most commonly used colour terms:
- Tint: A colour that has been lightened by adding white. - Hue: The colour of paint as it appears out of the tube or bottle, unmixed. - Tone: A colour that has been lightened or darkened by adding grey. - Shade: A colour that has been darkened by adding black. When you are working with colour schemes, you should consider using each colour’s shades, tints, and tones. It will offer the eye some restful colours that have been lightened, darkened, or neutralized. These variations allow the more powerful saturated colours to be used sparingly for emphasis when needed. If you want to work with colours of your choice but aren’t sure how to start, it can be helpful to do some quick colour sketches. If you need colour inspiration, go to the hardware store and pick up some colour chips or swatches in the hues you want to work with. It is useful to see the colours together. And, you can easily modify your palette by adding and removing colours to suit your taste..
Analogous colour scheme: Uses three or more colours that sit next to each other on the colour wheel.
Complementary colour scheme: Uses colours opposite of each other on the colour wheel. Square (Or Box) colour scheme: Uses four colours evenly spaced around the colour wheel.
Tetrad (or rectangular) colour scheme: Uses four colours made from two complementary colours. Split complementary colour scheme: Uses one root colour plus the two colours that are on either side of the root colour’s complement.
Selecting an analogous colour scheme isn’t as scary as you think! Using a colour wheel tool makes it very easy. Simply select three or more colours that rest side by side on the colour wheel. (This also includes their tints, tones. and shades.)
A Pocket Colour Wheel (These are available at most art supply stores.) 9 x 12 piece Arches 140lb Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper DecoArt Americana Acrylics in the following colours: (These are the colours that I selected but don’t be afraid to choose your own palette!) Saffron Yellow, Scarlet, Tangerine, Sunny Day, Sour Apple, Asphaltum, Warm White, and Lamp Black. Brushes: Traditions #5 or 6 Round Misc: Graphite pencil and Graphite Paper
With some clean water, wet the inside of the pear outline. Begin to add colour by thinning it slightly, keeping the darker value of the colour to the outside edge colour. I started with the Tangerine. To the highlight side (the left) I used the Saffron Yellow, again keeping the darker value to the outside edge. I left the center open. Moisten the paper with water from time to time to allow the paint to move.
Add Some of the Scarlet along the bottom of the pear, in the dimple at the base and a little on the upper right. Use the Sunny day to fill in the space at the center and on the left.
Deepen the shadows on the neck of the pear on the lower right of the left side. Use it at full strength to stroke in the stem. Over stroke it with a touch of the Sour Apple. Shade under the turn in the leaf
and down the center vein with a float of the Asphaltum. Add a highlight to the belly and the upper portion of the pear (on the left) with a little Warm White.
