Painting with a Flair!

May 2nd, 2009

The way to get a perfect is to match your color, you need to have a sense to match a perfect colors in your and the way to do that is to know first what is colors, colors, primary colors, secondary colors tertiary colors, colors values and relationship.

In this topic we will know all about colors, believe me after reading this topic, in your next you will have a perfect colors match.

A color is never seen alone, but always in a mixture with other colors. Like a music notes, no color seen alone, no color is good or not Rather, it’s a part of a beautiful composition that as a whole is pleasing or not. The color wheel theory helps to understand how colors relate to one another. HERE IS HOW IT WORKS.

Primary colors are the wheel’s main colors, they are the only colors not created from other colors. The primary colors are positioned around the wheel in thirds.

Secondary colors are halfway between the primary colors. Each of them made from equal amounts of the nearest two primary colors.

Tertiary colors fill the remaining gaps in the rest of the places remaining in the wheel. They are made from equal amounts of the adjacent primary and secondary colors.

Color values
Colors also has lightness and darkness, or value . To know value, The colors wheel has more rings, two small wheel inside rings for the light tints and two big wheel out rings for darker shades.

Note that Color wheel have five rings from dark outside to light inside, dark shades are the big rings, light tints are the small rings, and hues are in the middle ring of the colors wheel.

Know Which Color Goes with What

Blue is common to all seven colors, which get less blue as they move out, Green and violet are the secondaries that contain blue.

Yellow is common to all seven colors, which get less yellow as they move out. Green and orange are the secondaries that contain yellow.

Red is common to all seven colors, which get less redas they move out.Orange and violet secondaries that contain red.