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This an absolute must for all people who work with fibre, paint or flowers or just want to understand colour.The ultimate colour wheel consisting of eight stencil-like disks that can be placed over ltten's color wheel to compare cool and warm values, complementary colors, and different hues and intensities, this useful and innovative tool helps designers explore a myriad of harmonious color. Click here for reviews and to buy
 by Johannes Itten, Faber Birren This is the text I used when I was teaching design to tertiary students a few years ago. It is informative, and explains how colour works . If you wish to really understand colour, this is the book I recommend.
 and Objective Rationale of Color by Johannes Itten. This beautiful book take you on a journey, with the great artists as your teachers, as the works and the artists' use of colour are analysed through the eyes of Itten. If you are interested in the colour theory and its applicance on art this book is seriously worth considering. =
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Featured on this page are Colour harmonies: achromatic, adjacent, analogous, analogous complementary, direct complementary, double complementary and monochromatic. |
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Harmonies
"Colour harmonies fall into two groups, related and contrasting. The related harmonies are monochromatic and analogous, while the contrasting harmonies are complementery" Quoted from Flair, FASNZ  |
Does that all sound like a foreign language? We will look at 7 of the 12 colour harmonies to make it clearer but remember these are rules that are just waiting to be broken! Grab your colour wheel and let's begin! |
| Achromatic
Devoid of colour so only black, white and greys are used. This wonderful design, the
creator of which we have been unable to trace, has a black ladder shaped
centre, painted balck with white carnations in each "rung" of the ladder.
Grey cane was then twirled aound and inserted in holes to give this lovely
rhythmical feel, and it was all enclosed in an oval. |
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| Adjacent
Two or three neighbouring hues on the colour wheel 
Maureen May of Auckland used roses and chrysathemums from red/violet and violet on the colour wheel to achieve this beauty! |
Her innovative containers were two cones made with barbed wire and wool, all painted grey, with barbed wire floating around the design. |
| Analogous
Related hues lying adjacent on the colour wheel, usually with a primary colour included, but this is not essential.Usually only 5 related hues are chosen. In this scrumptous thanksgiving design the primary colour is yellow with the related red. red/orange, orange/yellow, yellow/green. Even the colour of the pie fits into the scheme. |
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| Analogous Complementary
Related hues lying adjacent on the colour wheel with a hue directly opposite to these. Penny Trubshaw used this combination on the top of a large design she created, (you will see more of Penny and her work in a later edition) She used red/violet, red, red/orange, and orange as adjacent hues then added one of the hues opposite, yellow/green with spectacular results. The yellow/green are anthuriums and chrsyathemums, the other hues are in the heliconia, gerberas and bromliead flowers. "While green/yellow is opposite the red/violet this is at the extreme edge of the analogous and not the direct opposite which is blue/green" a qualified judge has told me, so be aware that to be true to this definition the opposite hue must be directly opposite the middle hue of the analogy. OK? Get out that colour wheel and you'll see it clearly. |
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| Direct Complementary
Hues that lie directly opposite each other on the colour wheel. Enid Sloane used this combination as red/green in a wonderful design she created for an exhibition. The red was anthurrium, and the green was orchids and aspidistra. Enid's full design will feature in a future edition. |
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| Double or paired Complementary
2 hues that have one colour between them on the colour wheel, and their opposites . Deilene Hunt, pictured below,
runner up in New Zealand's designer of the year, chose this colour scheme
in her award winning design.
She used yellow/ green and
yellow orange from one side of the wheel and red/violet and blue from the
other side.
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| Monochromatic
Tints, shades and tones of one colour all used. In this design Nancy Murphy used green as the hue, with tints from the astelia, and apple green protea. The shades came from the hosta , succulents and fern. 
Very difficult to photograph it was fresh and clean in its overall impression. Teamed with silver balls and wire it was a popular design for many visitors to the exhibition. |
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