Applying Color Theory
Dennis's
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.
Analogous Color
Analogous Color
Three Adjoining Colors
The expression “analogous” refers to an analogy, (having similarity, a resemblance to something. This type of color scheme lacks contrast, which is their strength. However, incorporate black, white, and gray to create stunning tints, tones, and shades.
In Color Theory, an analogous color scheme refers to a select group of three adjoining colors on the artist's color wheel. The color scheme remains composed of one principal hue, an accent color, and a supporting color of the trio. It is a clever idea when deciding on an analogous color scheme to use the center color of the three as the dominant color, and the colors on
the left and the right as supporting hues. This encourages a pleasant visual effect, as these color groups inherently work well together because they share a common hue, the difference is in the saturation and brightness.
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Nature Scene 16 x 20 Oil on Canvas
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Analogous colors are any three colors that are together or next to each other on a color wheel. They exist characteristically in agreement because they reproduce similar light waves. For instance,
a) Red and orange, b) orange and yellow, c) green and blue, d) blue and violet,
A straightforward related color scheme includes three adjoining hues of a twelve-hue color wheel. An expanded analogous color scheme can include as few as two to five adjacent colors. The normal practice, however, is only three adjacent colors employing; the primary hues, the intermediary tertiary colors, and the adjacent secondary colors. Therefore:
a) Red, red-orange, and orange b) red, red-purple, and purple etc.,
