Jump to content
  • entries
    169
  • comments
    264
  • views
    8,744

Color Theory


Curious

1,399 views

Several people have mentioned that my colors look good together and they have problems choosing what colors to use.   I have some practice with this due to making designs for my online stores.   There is a thing called Color Theory and while that gives an idea of how colors go together, I still maintain that you can't do anything wrong when coloring.   For other areas of life, there are probably color combos that you want to stay away from, but in coloring the sky's the limit.

Essentially color theory is putting colors in a logical order next to each other.   This is most often accomplished with a color wheel.   There are 3 types of colors:  primary, secondary and tertiary.  

Primary colors are colors that can't be made by mixing other colors together.  The primary colors are blue, red and yellow. 

Secondary colors are colors made by mixing the primary colors together.  The secondary colors are purple (red/blue), green (blue/yellow) and orange (red/yellow).

Tertiary  colors are colors made by mixing a primary color and a secondary color.  They have 2 names as a result, for example yellow-orange.

colorwheel.thumb.jpeg.4af2576fad530ac0e1

There are also shades and tints, but I don't want to get too complex in this post.  Quick and dirty version:  shades are a color plus black and tints are a color plus white.

Colors that are opposite each other on the wheel are called complementary and colors next to each other are called analogous.  Colors on the top half of the wheel are considered warm and the bottom half is considered cool colors.

There are as many ways to combine colors are they are opinions ;)     You can use all warm colors or all cool colors.  You can use complementary colors or analogous colors.  You can use warm colors with cool color accents or cool colors with warm color accents.  

Things you may want to avoid are an entire picture that is "too harmonious."   If you do an entire picture in reds there may not be enough contrast and it will look boring.   If you use too many wildly different colors it may be too chaotic and overwhelming.

When I am coloring a page, I try to kind of split it into areas in my head and try to get an idea of what I want for the overall look.  If I have a picture with a lot of leaves, I will make the leaves with several different greens rather than a whole wall of green.  If I have a bunch of flowers, I will try to use bright colors and then use a darker shade on other parts so it's not too blinding, as flowers are generally relatively small in the pages I do.

As I said in a comment, you really can't do anything wrong when coloring.   Pick what looks good to you and just have fun with it.  The more you color the easier it will be to pick your color.  You will probably gravitate toward certain colors a lot of the time, which is normal.   So stop worrying and start coloring!

Additional Reading:

http://www.worqx.com/color/

http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory

 

  • Upvote 4

0 Comments


Recommended Comments

There are no comments to display.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Posts

    • RebeccaRay

      Posted

      Emily Keyes and Ethan Meyer are engaged

    • JermajestyDuggar

      Posted

      Every time I see Jed, he looks more and more like Josh. If I was starting to look like him, I would try really hard to do something different. Like I would grow a Magnum PI mustache. Or I would grow my hair a lot longer. Just to look different from Josh.

      BC18629A-E17D-4348-99E1-C9297E287B84.jpeg

    • Xan

      Posted

      The egg apron is a deal breaker for me.  That was just an insult.  "You think you deserve a gift?  I'll show you your place!"

      And I'm a little bit tired of the social media scolds.  If they didn't put their lives on the internet, we wouldn't have opinions.  They did so we do.  If most of us think that he's a bully, he probably is.  I guess it's another case of the husband being so full of himself that he was sure the interview would show him in a good light.  It didn't.

      • Upvote 3
    • Xan

      Posted

      I always find these Trump fantasy worlds very bizarre.  He's never in a nice suit meeting a world leader or even in a fireman's suit saving a child from a burning building.  It's always some fake macho outfit and, in this case, driving a car with a Confederate flag on it.  Their heroes don't seem that heroic.

      • I Agree 2
    • JDuggs

      Posted

      On 12/22/2023 at 11:51 PM, JDuggs said:

      It looks like Micah is in a relationship, or very good friends, with this Florida realtor Veronica Peters. I’ve seen photos of them together on Micah’s IG, but I always thought she kind of looked too old for him. Maybe not.

      This was on Moriah’s IG:

        Hide contents

      image.thumb.jpeg.e5583f82734714ccb023fc889e4f0f90.jpeg

      And this was on Veronica’s personal IG and professional IG:

        Hide contents

      image.thumb.jpeg.e637a588be2f14fc379935962e743f47.jpeg

        Hide contentsimage.thumb.png.bfaa9a4a2ac77388067acef5c5afb81c.png

       

      Quoting myself from six months ago. I think this really is Micah’s girlfriend. She doesn’t seem quite as public about their relationship as she did back then.

      This photo of Veronica didn’t get copied over from my old post.

      Spoiler

      image.thumb.jpeg.0ae44da117d43f1db49868c42924ea03.jpeg

       

      • Upvote 1


×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.