Understanding the color wheel
with your garden.
The color wheel arranges the rainbow spectrum in a circle.
It clearly shows the interrelationships of colors and illustrates a number
of color principles.
Primary colors
Red, yellow, and blue are called primary colors. All
other colors can be produced by various mixtures of these three.
Conversely, no mixture of other colors will produce pure spectrum red,
yellow, or blue. These three colors are spaced equally apart around
the color wheel.
Complementary Colors
Colors that face on another across the wheel, red and
green, blue and orange. This means that if you were to mix paints of
two complementary colors, they would neutralize, or complementary colors
side by side, however presents a strong contrast.
Harmonious Colors
Colors that lie between any two primary colors are said to
be harmonious with one another. This simply means that they are
graduated mixtures of those two primary colors. For example, the
transition from yellow to red, through follow orange, orange and red orange
is accomplished by gradually adding more red to yellow. The closer
together two colors are in the spectrum, the more harmonious they are.
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