COLOR THEORY

In this post I’ll be telling you about color theory color contrast and many more things this will definitely help you if you are an artist. I’ll make sure to make you understand and this is going to benefit you in your every step.

PRIMARY COLOR

You can create secondary colors using them but you cannot create them by using any other color. Here’s something I have to tell is that there’s another color wheel that says different I’ll be telling you about that in the end.

-RED

-BLUE

-YELLOW

SECONDARY COLORS

They are the mixture of two primary colors.

-PURPLE

-GREEN

-ORANGE

 

TERTIARY COLORS

They are created by mixing primary and secondary colors.

-YELLOW ORANGE

-RED ORANGE

-RED VIOLET

-BLUE VIOLET

-BLUE GREEN

-YELLOW GREEN

 

In this way color wheel is created

COLOR THEORY will help you to conceal anything. It will help you in doing your makeup be it. Bridal or fantasy makeup. Once you know this you can mix colors and use them, so now you can carry less makeup wherever you go.

COOL COLORS – they are the ones associated with cold, ocean, water, relaxation, calmness and the list goes on…

-GREEN

-BLUE

-YELLOW

-VIOLET

WARM COLORS – they are associated with heat, warmth, sun, fire etc.

-ORANGE

-RED

-YELLOW

-VIOLET

Yellow and violet are on the borders so they are concluded in both warm as well as cool. When we mix them with warm and cool we get the mixture of both warm as well as cool.

Neutral colors are 50% of warm and 50% of cool

2 RULES OF COLOR WHEEL

# when you take opposite colors and put on top of each other they neutralize each other cool cuts warm, warm cut cool.

Example: If you have warm on your face like pimples you can hide it with the opposite color of it that is by using cool color on your face (GREEN).

In the same way if you have dark circles you can hide it with an orange color corrector.

 

# when you put opposite colors from the color wheel next to each other they may give you complimentary and contrasting effect. (You may have heard of complimentary colors).

 Example: you can you cool color for eyeshadow and warm for lipstick for bold makeup

In the same way if your eyes are cool then you can use warm eyeshadow and vice versa.

 

The end part about the new color wheel:

 

This is the wheel created by an artist for other artists. This color wheel is named as real color wheel (RCW). This wheel is same but says that yellow magenta and seine are the primary colors.