If we add too many sets of complementary colors, the picture can end up looking busy or overdone instead of exciting. Draw another picture of the tree and add presents. Putting in two sets of complementary colors can create an exciting result, but what happens if we make the picture more complicated? Let’s draw a new picture to find out. Which combination of colors do you like best? Which seems most vibrant to you? Choose your own sets of colors-the only requirement is to choose complementary colors. Use the same four colors, but put them in new locations.ĭraw a third and fourth tree, and choose two new sets of complementary colors for each new picture. Then draw a new drawing with the same tree, the same ornaments, and the same line for the background. Let’s combine the colors in our 6-color wheel to make tertiary colors.Ĭhoose two complementary colors from this new color wheel to color the two spaces of the wall and floor (no need to choose the same colors as are in the example!). It’s when you add colors to these spaces that the excitement grows!īut before you color these two spaces, take time to learn a little more about the color wheel. Then draw a line for where the wall meets the floor. Use a neutral color like brown or black for the trunk. Use crayons or markers to color the tree with the traditional complementary colors, red and green. Draw a few circles for the ornaments-there’s no need to make the drawing complicated at the point. Start by drawing a simple evergreen tree-a triangle mounted on a rectangle-on an 8” x 5 1/2” paper. Let’s explore how we can exploit complementary colors to make a very simple-but visually exciting-picture. That’s a color combination that dispels gloom! Paint a picture with blue and green, or blue and purple, and you get a cold picture.īut what happens when you make a picture from opposite sides of the color wheel-with complementary colors? YOU GET EXCITEMENT! That’s why it’s so common to decorate green Christmas trees with red ornaments. If you paint a picture with red and orange, for example, you get a warm picture. If we paint a picture with two analogous colors (colors right next to each other on the color wheel) we can create a particular feeling. You probably already know that there are three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue, and that by mixing these three colors-and by adding black and white-we can get all the other colors.Ī simple color wheel shows the three primaries and the three secondary colors we get by mixing them together. What makes the contrast of red and green so exciting? The color wheel holds the answer.
To counter the grey winter skies, we decorate with strong color contrasts-red and green.
To counter the icy cold, we enjoy hot chocolate, hot soups, and crackling fires. What is the Christmas season without contrasts? To counter the long dark nights, we hang thousands of twinkling lights.
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