Color Schemes

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Color Schemes

• Color Schemes

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Monochromatic

• Mono means one
• Chroma means color
• Monochromatic color schemes have only ONE color
  and its values.
• The painting is an example
• of a monochromatic color
• scheme using tints and
• shades of blue

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Monochromatic

• This room displays
• the use of yellows

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Monochromatic

• This room displays the use of blues.

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Analogous

• The analogous color scheme is 3-5 colors adjacent
  to each other on the color wheel. This
  combination of colors provides very little
  contrast.

• This picture shows the use of yellow,
  yellow-green, green, and blue-green.

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Analogous

• Bottom picture shows use of yellows and greens.

• Above picture shows use of reds and oranges.

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Analogous

• This picture shows the use of purples and blues.

• This picture shows the use of oranges and yellows.

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Complementary

• Complementary colors are opposite on the color
  wheel provided a high contrast.

• This painting is an example of complementary
  colors and their values using blues and oranges.

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Complementary

• Colors opposite on the color wheel- red/green,
  yellow/purple. blue/orange

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Triadic Red, yellow, bluePurple, orange, green

• The primary colors are not mixed from other
  elements and they generate all other colors.

• The secondary colors are mixed from the primary
  colors.

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Triadic
Three color scheme red, yellow, blue or orange,
green and purple
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Warm Colors

• Warm colors are found on the right side of the
  color wheel. They are colors found in fire and
  the sun. Warm colors make objects look closer in
  a painting or drawing.

• This painting displays the use of warm colors
  such as reds, oranges, and yellows.

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Warm Colors
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Cool Colors

• Cool colors are found on the left side of the
  color wheel. They are the colors found in snow
  and ice. The colors tend to recede in a
  composition.

• This painting displays a cool color scheme using
  greens, purples, and blues.

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Cool Colors
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Other possibilities

• Split Complementary-
• red, green and blue or orange
• purple and green