The Color Wheel and Color schemes

Monochromatic color scheme Uses only one color and a variety of tints (white added) and shades (black or grey added) of that color

Elizabeth Peyton

Milton Avery

Analogous Color scheme Willem De Kooning red violet, red, red orange, orange

Analogous color schemes Uses colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. This creates a very unified design, but with more visual interest than in a monochromatic scheme.

Red-orange, Orange, Yellow-orange

Wolf Kahn: yellow orange, yellow, Red-orange (blue accents)

Blue violet, violet, blue

Yellow-orange, orange, red orange, red

Complementary color scheme Colors that are opposite one another on the color wheel are complements. Complementary Color schemes utilize one complementary dyad (pair). Red-----Green Blue-----orange Yellow----purple

These are very eye-catching designs, but have the potential to be very jarring. Your choice of saturation will be very important.

Andy Warhol

Split-complementary color scheme A color combined with the two colors surrounding it’s complement. Lslightly more sophisticated and less aggressive than a complementary scheme. Purple—Yellow-orange—Yellow-green

Blue, red-orange, and yellow-orange

Green, red-violet, red-orange

Kehinde Wiley Red-Orange; Blue; Green

Red, Blue-green, Yellow-green

Quadratic Four colors, equally spaced in the color-wheel

Willem DeKooning Blue-violet---Yellow-Orange Green---Red

Triadic Color Scheme 3 equally spaced colors

Triadic Color Scheme: Red-Yellow-Blue

Fake Mondrian: Red, Yellow, Blue

Bridget Riley Blue-green, Blue-Violet, Yellow-Orange

Purple, Orange, Green

Name this scheme!!

Name this color scheme!!!