Color Palettes for Abstracts

You learn about primary colours, the parents of all the colours and see a video on creating a painting using those particular colours.

Secondary colours are the colours created by mixing the primary colours. See how I use them in my abstract painting.

Learn about tertiary colours and how to use them.

What is the difference between warm and cool colours?  Find out here.

With shades you add black to a basic colour.  Learn how to combine these colours in one painting.

With tints you add white to a colour.  See how I use three tints to create a painting.

High key paintings are, for me, the hardest paintings to create.  See how this painting surprises me.

Monochrome paintings are very popular.  You take one colour and change this colour with either white, black or another colour.  See how this looks.

Complementary colours are opposites on the colour wheel.  They look great together.  Check out my example.

Analogous colours are the colours that are close to each other on the colour wheel.  This is a really fun and easy to paint combination.

Split complementary colours are two colours from one side of the the colour wheel with one from the opposite side.  The results are outstanding.

I look at every painting and discuss if the composition and the colours work well together.

I look at all the paintings again and decide if they work as a painting.  I discuss what I would change to make it a better painting.

A review of what we have learned and a few examples of masters who choose to work with colour palettes.