You may have studied colour previously. Please forgive me if I am going over anything that you already know.
These are my handpainted colours (yep, more late nights and coffees to do these).
The top row are the primary colours as seen on the colour wheel. From left to right: warm red, cool red, warm yellow, cool yellow, warm blue, cool blue.
Read on to see more...
In the second row are the secondary colours. These have been created by mixing two primary colours together.
Do you remember doing this in primary school? I remember I could never control myself as a child and I would keep mixing colours together until everything turned brown.
The last two rows are the tertiary colours. These have been created by mixing two secondary colours together and you can create some beautiful soft shades in doing so.
The bottom two rows (the little squares) have had white added to shade above to soften the shades even more. Lovely colours aren't they?
When selecting an interior colour scheme you can combine colours from each of the 'tiers' but I'll show you primary, secondary and tertiary examples below for the purposes of showing you how they would look in a space.
(Image via HERE)
(Images via HERE and House Beautiful)
See how beautiful and soft the tertiary colours can look? And if you add a black tint to the tertiary colours to darken them instead of lightening them with white you can get some really dark and moody colours:
(Image via HERE)
Imagine this interior with a bright cushion in a secondary colour, green for example - it would really stand out against this colour scheme.
Next up in this series I would love to show you how to use the colour wheel to create colour schemes for interiors. More to come soon. Are you enjoying this so far? I hope so.
