Color


Using this color scheme incorporating complementary and analogous colors
Analogous Split Complements: 
A look at how to use this color scheme incorporating complementary and analogous colors in a painting.
Color palettes to use to start painting.
Basic Color Palette
A look at a couple of simple color arrangements one can use to simplify color mixing.
AN introduction to the color wheel
Color Wheel:
 A basic introduction to color theory and the color wheel.
An introduction to the different colorwheels.
Color Wheel Basics
An introduction to the different color wheels and a brief explanation of primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.

What are complementary colors
Complementary Color
A look at what the complementary colors are and how to use them.
The relationship between color and value
Color and Value
A look at value levels of color by removing the hue characteristics to see how the colors compare.

A guide to using a limited palette.
Limited Palette
A guide to using a limited palette.

Local color
Local Color
A look at how color variation can be used to highlight forms.


The properties of color
Properties of Color
The three properties of a color.
Muting a color with its complementary color
Reducing Color SaturationUsing complementary color to mute a color or reduce the saturation.
The subtractive color system
Subtractive Color System
A brief explanation of subtractive color.

The temperature of color
The Temperature of Color
A look at the warm and cool color relationships.
Tints, shades, and color
Tints and Shades
A look at the effects of adding white or black to a color.
Using complementary colors with watercolor painting.
Watercolor Complements
How to mute colors in watercolor.