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Harmonious Colors

What are Harmonious Colors?

It is usually recommended that you use complementary colors in you paintings.
Sometimes you don't want to use complementary colors because you are focusing on using all Harmonious Colors.

Colors that are close to each other on the color wheel are call "Harmonious colors". They are made up in part, by some of the same colors and work very well together in a painting.

    So, for instance harmonious colors would include:
  • yellow, yellow-green and green
  • yellow green, yellow and orange
  • orange, red-orange, and red
  • blue violet, blue and red-violet
  • just to name a few.


I'm sure you have seen paintings made up of only Harmonious Colors. They can be quite beautiful.

Take some time now to use only Harmonious Colors to see how nicely they work together and give painting a completely different feel.

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