The Color Wheel
It can be confusing to select a color scheme for your home. It’s expensive and inconvenient to paint so getting the color right the first time is a must.
To help our clients understand color selection, The Designer Gals, thought we’d introduce you to the basics of the color wheel.
It can be confusing to select a color scheme for your home. It’s expensive and inconvenient to paint so getting the color right the first time is a must.
To help our clients understand color selection, The Designer Gals, thought we’d introduce you to the basics of the color wheel.
This is the color wheel in its full glory.To understand it a little bit better, we can break it down by color.
Three Primary Colors - Red, Blue and Yellow. All colours come from some combination of two or more of these colors.
Three Secondary Colors - Orange, Green, and Violet. These colors are made by two primary colors mixed together. yellow + red = orange; yellow + blue = green; red + blue = violet
These color combinations are called intermediate colours. Intermediate colors lie between the primary and secondary colors on the color wheel. Intermediate colors are made by mixing together one primary and one secondary color.
The combination of primary, secondary and intermediate colors creates the color wheel.
A wonderful exercise for anyone who wishes to understand color better is to create their own color wheel with water colors. Beginning with the primary colors, create the secondary colors, then the immediate colors. Use lots of water. Inexpensive water paints can be purchased in the craft department of any general store. We’ve included a blank color wheel on the next page. Print it out on a thick sheet of paper. (Card stock is good and available in most general stores in the school supplies department).
Your Very Own Color Wheel
click on the file below to download and print out your color wheel.
click on the file below to download and print out your color wheel.
| your_very_own_color_wheel.doc |
Download and print the following files to practice tinting and shading.
| color_practice_sheet.doc |
| color_practice_sheet_2.doc |
| color_practice_sheet_3.doc |
| color_practice_sheet_4.doc |
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