Craft Tip #2: Choosing Colors

An important part of creating a work of art is choosing which colors to use. Often, certain colors work better together than others. Choosing which combinations to use can be tricky, but here are a few tips to make the choice a little easier:

There are twelve basic hues:

Color Schemes:

1. Monochromatic: combining lighter and darker hues of the same color.









2. Analogous: combining three or four adjacent colors on the color wheel.











3. Complementary: combining any two colors on opposite sides of the color wheel.











4. Triadic: combining three equally spaced colors, in the form of a triangle.











5. Split Complementary: combing complementary and triadic schemes (choose a color plus the two colors closely adjacent to it).






Image Source: Color Theory