People often struggle with creating a great color scheme. In my last few blog articles we discussed how you could take your favorite color, blue for example, and create different color schemes. We explored monochromatic, analogous, complimentary, diad, triad and tetrad color schemes. Today, lets look at a Split-Complimentary!
A tetrad uses four colors which include two complimentary color pairings. It can be difficult to balance if you use all four colors in equal amounts it may feel like too much. You can use one to three colors as dominant colors and and let the rest be more subdued. By subdued, I mean you can use less of the colors proportionally. Or you could use less saturated versions of the colors so they don’t stand out as much, but color schemes tend to look more harmonious if you are using similar saturation or chroma levels. Here are some examples.
Your blogs on color schemes are so intriguing I was thinking about last week’s post while I was driving this week! Very inspiring.
Thank you so much. That makes me so happy to know you were thinking about my post and inspired by it!!
Your renderings are always amazing!! Love how you illustrate everything with the perfect visual!
Thank you so much! I hope the visuals really help people to understand color and all the possibilities open to them:)
I love how your renderings solidify the explanation. This series has given me thought on an upcoming project!
Wonderful! I look forward to reading about your project and so happy this series inspired you!
This is a great series, Mary Ann and you KNOW I love your fractal art!
Thank you so much Janet! I really appreciate your support for my fractal art:)