Tetradic Color Scheme
Color Scheme Project
- Cut a large piece of paper in half, so that it is 18" X 12"
- Using light pressure, draw a simple shape
- Using light pressure, develop a simple pattern around that shape
- Using light pressure, continue the pattern until you fill the paper with your pattern
- Choose a color, and paint that color in (roughly) a third of the shapes in your pattern
- Choose a color scheme that uses the color you chose in step five, and fill in the pattern, in (roughly) a third of the paper, with the scheme you have chosen
- Choose a second color scheme that also uses the color you chose in step five, and continue to fill in the pattern, in (roughly) another third of the paper, with the second scheme you have chosen
- Choose a third color scheme that also uses the color you chose in step five, and finish filling in the pattern, in (roughly) the last third of the paper, with the third scheme you have chosen
Color Schemes
Complementary Color Scheme: colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.
Split-Complementary Color Scheme: a variation of the complementary color scheme which uses the two analogous colors adjacent to a color whose complement is the third color of this color scheme (Split-Complementary Color Scheme Examples).
Triadic Color Scheme: three colors equally spaced around the color wheel.
Tetradic Color Scheme: uses four colors arranged into two complementary color pairs.