Colour theory

Today's post is about colour theory and different context colour now days colour has such a big impact on our lives, we use colour to express moods and feelings. As a makeup artist it is very important to know the colour theory as we work with colour in our designs and is good to know what colour you can use that will compliment each other and which colours won't. We work with so many different clients with warm, cool and neatural under tones in there skin so regarding that is good to know which tone of red will compliment your client and which tone won't.

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http://www.uwgb.edu/heuerc/2d/colorterms.html

Color theory is a guidance for colour mixing and visual effects of colour combination

http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory

A colour wheel is an organization of colours around a circle to show the relationship between primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory

Primary colours- red, yellow, blue

Secondary colours- when you mix the primary colours together you will achieve green, orange and violet.

Tertiary colours- mixing the primary secondary colours together like, blue-green, red-violet and yellow-orange.

A colour harmony is colour combinations that are pleasing to the eye and mixture of colours that combine together.

http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm

Complementary colours- are the apposite colours to the primary colours such as green is a complementary colour as it is opposite to red. 

http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm

Analogous are colour that are next to each other on the colour wheel they compliment each other very well.

http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm

Triad are three colours that are evenly spaced on a colour wheel which create a nice vibrant colour that compliment each other.

http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm

Split-Complementary 
The split-complementary color scheme is a variation of the complementary color scheme. In addition to the base color, it uses the two colors adjacent to its complement.

http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm

Rectangle (tetradic)
The rectangle or tetradic color scheme uses four colors arranged into two complementary pairs.

http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm

Square 
The square color scheme is similar to the rectangle, but with all four colors spaced evenly around the color circle.

http://velgacode.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/monochromatic.jpg

Monochromatic colour- is all shades of one colour starting from light to dark.

http://kateyestudio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/wheel52.jpg

Chromatic colour- chromatic colour is the actual colour that does not have neatural colours, white, black and greys and are just the solid colour.

http://aussiescrapsource.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345570e869e2014e8b15da4c970d-pi

Achromatic colour- is neatural colours such as white black and grey.

http://scm.ulster.ac.uk/~B00584676/DES106/images/colour/6.gif

Colour context is how the colour behaves with other colours and shapes which ones appear more vibrant or dull.

Research Links

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory

tigger.uic.edu/~hilbert/Glossary.html

http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm

http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory