Watercolor+Theory+and+Practice

Lesson Five

Color Theory ( always black or a dark color, white is the amount of water in traditional watercolor )

Here we will paint a picture using color schemes

Monotone-one color plus black and there is no white what happens think of water as white Complementary-Work using P/Y, R/G & B/O

Analogous color-any two colors next to eaxh other on the color wheel please refer to link

Warm/Cool- any contrast of dark to light like blue/yellow, purple/ orange

Triad-any three equal space colors on the color wheel so we make a color wheel first

Tetrad-any four colors equal spaced on color wheel