Colour Theory

Colour Theory

Guide to using a mixing colour in a range of media:

Colour wheel- illustrate organization of colour hues- This is what colours work well together and what colours contrast each other, a colour wheel is important to pick the correct colours for the correct colouring of your client.

Primary Colours: are you basic colours, they're single stand alone colours (Blue, Yellow and Red)

Secondary Colours: are a mixture of two primary colours e.g. Blue and Red = Violet

Red + Yellow = Orange

Tertiary Colours: Mix of primary + secondary colours, for example: mix yellow and orange it makes a yellow orange colour ( warmer tone)  red with orange makes a red orange. 

Cool colours and warm colours: Cool colours are blue based and warm colours are yellow based. You get warm versions of cool colours e.g. Blue, they get warmer by becoming a lighter shade and becoming green, as a yellow has been added to do so. 

Every colour has a cool and warm version with use of colour added. 

  

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what works together and what contrasts with each other.

Lightness

Saturation (intense/dull)

Similar to contrast but with colours not with shadows, it shows the colours the contrast each other and the colours will stand out more, by increasing the saturation within a photo, you can lower the saturation by making the colours more dull.

Hue- Refers to pure colour, red, blue, green and yellow, it shows a variety of colour within the photo and highlighting use opposite colour of the photo. 

Monochromatic- Variations of the same colour, so you could use purple on someone with green eyes, as this would complement their colorings and enhance the colour, you could use light, medium and dark tones of purple this is what monochromatic is.

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Analogous- Using colours that are either side of each other on the colour wheel, this will create great harmony and this works well with each other. 

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Complimentary- Using opposite colours of the colour wheel (directly opposite to each other). A complimentary opposite colour will bring out your eye colouring. These colours will compliment you a lot more then a matching shade, for example if you had a client with green eyes and you put green eye shadow on them, you become distracted by the eye shadow and don't know what to look at, as their eyes won't stand out because there is too much colour of green. If you used a bronze, brown or burgundy colour on a model with blue eyes, their eye colouring would stand out and you'd notice there eyes.  

You always want to use a colour that will compliment your model/ client by using opposite colours brings their eye colouring to focus. 

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Achromatic- Black and white

Natural colours- Foundation colours, neutral colours, Beige colours. 

A lot of people ask the question what colours will suit me? What will compliment my features?

This will answer there questions and by knowing this we can apply the correct colours to compliment their colouring all round.

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