Color schemes in Art

When you look at a painting the first thing that impacts you the most is the color. Color is what sets the mood. Color is what speaks to you. Choosing the right color scheme is very important to the effect you are trying to create.

What is a color scheme?
A color scheme is a set of colors that are logically put together on the color wheel. Try out different schemes to create various moods.

Warm/cool color scheme:
If you draw the line in half on the color wheel from yellow to red section are warm colors. Cool color scheme: From violet to green the range of colors are called cool colors, create a painting in both colors and see the impact.  Here is the interesting red-violet and green-yellow that is not warm or cool they are the in between colors. You can use them to your advantage.

Primary color scheme:
It has the primary colors red, yellow and blue and tints, shades and tones of the three colors.

Secondary color scheme:
It is the secondary colors orange, green and violet.

Tertiary color scheme:
Tertiary colors are  primary mixed with secondary colors.

Complementary color scheme:
Colors that are opposite in the wheel.

Split complementary color scheme:
Includes one main color on one side of the wheel and two other colors opposite to the main color on the wheel and two on either side.

Triadic color scheme: Has three colors as a triangle on the wheel.

Tetrads color scheme: Four colors on the color wheel, like two complementary colors.

Analogous color scheme: This scheme has colors next to each other on the color wheel, it is soothing to the eye.

Split analogous color scheme: Has colors next to each other has a main color and two colors one space away.

Neutral color scheme: Black, white, brown, gray etc. colors that are not the color wheel.

Accented neutral color scheme: Has neutral colors like black, white, brown, gray etc. with a bit of color like brown with green or black with red etc.