Applying Color Theory
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The Art of Color Theory Series
The color wheel is an essential tool for artists, providing a visual representation of colors arranged according to their chromatic relationship. By having the color wheel as a guide, artists can explore analogous themes, complementary colors, and triadic color schemes, along with how to appropriately mix colors to achieve the desired saturation, value, and hue. Understanding the color wheel is crucial for artists to convey their creativity and express emotions in their works.
The Monochromatic Color
A Monochromatic color scheme refers to the word mono means one, and chroma identifies color, the definition of monochromatic hue consists of an independent (stand-alone) single color. Monochromatic colors consist of all the variants of their colors tints, tones, and shades of a single hue.
Monochromatic color palettes have become extremely popular in the visual arts and design industry. In such artwork, one will start by picking one color and applying variants of it. Therefore, a designer who has decided to use such a palette should become well-versed with the terms base, (the hue/color) shade, tint, and tone used in creating a monochromatic color scheme. The variants of the colors
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• Base: Your base is the initial point of your monochromatic color scheme. All the other variations of colors used will derived from this single base.
• Shade: These will be blacker derivatives of your base hue. Shades occur by adding a pure black hue to make your base darker.
• Tint: A tint is a lighter (whiter) derivative of your base color and remains obtained through the addition of white. The whiter, the less base color saturation.
• Tone: Tones appear by adding grey. Grey is a combination of incorporating a black and white mixture.
