Sunday 16 July 2017

colour Scheme for walls

colour Scheme for walls

there are only three primary colours - red, yellow and blue. All other colours are mixture of these three. There are warm colours and cool colours. Red, orange and yellow and warm ; violet, blue and green are cool. Exess of red or orange is upsetting, most uncomfortable to live with in hot climate. The coolness of blues and greens recall water, ice, snow and trees, white, pure greys and black are natural

Clour Terms;
A tint - is a colour plus white; a shade is a colour plus black:
A hue- is a colour plus a little of another colour that is close to it on the colourwheel
Tone - the intensity of colour, value refers to its lightness or darkness 
Dark values are called shades, lights values are tints.

Cool Colors:


  1. Yellow Green
  2. Green
  3. Blue Green
  4. Primary Blue
  5. Blue Violet
  6. Violet

Warm colours:

  1. Red Violet
  2. Primary Red
  3. Red orange
  4. Orange
  5. yellow Orange
  6. Primary Yeloow

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