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COLOR THEORY BASICS: Use the Color Wheel & Color Harmonies to Choose Colors that Work Well Together



Sarah Renae Clark

Learn color theory and how to choose colors that work well together: with the color wheel, color harmonies and color palettes.

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Have you ever wondered how some artists are able to find perfect color combinations that just seem to work, every time? In this video, I’m going to show you how to use the color wheel and color harmonies to choose color combinations that look GOOD.

Here’s what we’ll cover:
– Basic color theory: What is the color wheel?
– What are the primary colors?
– What are secondary and tertiary colors?
– What is the difference between hue, color saturation, color value, and color temperature?
– What is the difference between warm red and cool red?
– What are color harmonies?
– What are monochromatic colors?
– What are complementary colors?
– What is a split-complementary color scheme?
– What is a triadic color scheme?
– What are tetradic colors?
– What are analogous colors?
– How can I use color harmonies to choose colors?
– How can I use color palettes?

We’ll cover the 6 different types of color harmonies, including plenty of example color palettes:
1. Monochromatic colors
2. Complementary colors
3. Split-complementary colors
4. Triadic colors
5. Tetradic colors
6. Analogous colors

We’ll be using the traditional RYB color wheel throughout this video, with the primary colors Red, Yellow and Blue. There are other color wheels (RGB and CMY) that are often used for better color mixing, but the RYB color wheel is still the best for working with color harmonies.

If you want to take a deeper dive into the other color wheels and color theory, check out my next video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRQmV4XYmqI

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36 thoughts on “COLOR THEORY BASICS: Use the Color Wheel & Color Harmonies to Choose Colors that Work Well Together
  1. If voices were colours, yours would be bright and vivid and undoubtedly part of a wonderful colour scheme. That was a brilliant explanation and the visuals were helpful, interesting and terrific. Thank you!

  2. omg this finally is what i needed, every color theory tutorial only tells you basics on color mixing and not the things that you actually should know that nobody shows, thanks sarah once again

  3. Color harmonies
    Analogous:red with orangey-pink streaks
    Complementary:blue and orange
    Triadic:primary color palette
    Tetradic/Square:purple,yellow,red and blue-green
    Split-Complementary:blue,red-orange and yellow
    Monochrome:just shades of green
    Odd(DO NOT USE):rainbow and grayscale at once

  4. Hi Sarah (or anyone with an answer) I have your Color Theory for Beginners, Colour Catalogues and Companion.
    I'm trying to find the right Polychromos pencil colours just to fill in the primary, secondary and tertiary colours on the colour wheel.
    Can anyone help? I have the full set (120) of Polychromos.

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