Creating Color Schemes

Learning to create your own color schemes can become a fun and expressive personal journey.

Understanding a few simple color concepts can quickly get you on your way to developing the color schemes that work best for you, for your design project, or for your clients.

At artSparx we've developed a simple and effective 3 step system to help you understand the elements of color, and how to incorporate these ideas to create successful color schemes for you home, office, paintings, and decorative projects.

Start Here!
First, review this feature about how colors work in interior spaces...
Then visit the following features to incorporate your ideas into effective color solutions for your home or office.

Rich red tones on fabric and carpet are used to complement the natural earth tones of stone, wood and leather.

Using Colors for residential and commercial interiors
	Understanding the 12 step color wheel
	Creating a 12 step color wheel.

	Basic principles of color
	Primary, secondary and tertiary colors Tints and shades, value and hue, neutral grays

	Creating harmonious color schemes
	Using complementary and contrasting colors Using triadic colors to create balanced color schemes Using tetrads to create balanced color schemes


Using Neutrals Creating harmonious Color schemes	Soft Pastels Using Complementary colors to create soft refreshing schemes.	Rich Contrasts Creating harmony with bold color schemes.

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