Up: [[Art Fundamentals]] Created: 2023-08-22 ### Harmonious Adjacent colours on the wheel. Adjacent can mean adjacent secondaries or tertiaries. Helen Wells suggests you need 3 for a palette. Another option is to combine several harmonious colours with a contrasting colour. Such as a family of greens with a red. ### Complementary Colours that are opposite each other on the wheel. Adds zing to a harmonious palette. Red and green are complementary, so are purple and yellow etcetera. Interesting point is that when two complementary colours are side by side, they contain between them all of the colours on the wheel. If I use complementary colours, each colour will look like a more extreme version of itself. For example, if yellow and purple are together in a piece, the purple will look more purple, and the yellow more yellow. It’s a simple way to introduce contrast into image. If I want to make a dirtier version of the yellow or purple, I need to mix in a small amount of the opposite colour. ### Monochromatic Single colour. Be careful with this. Have to focus more on composition because you can’t use colour to hide behind. ### Triad Three colours that are equidistant on the colour wheel, such as blue, yellow, green.