How To Choose Color Schemes For Your Coloring Pages
What Color Experts Say: You should have a color scheme for every page you color. The first thing you should do after choosing a coloring page is plan the color scheme. To do that, you need a color wheel. Colors on a color wheel are grouped into primary, secondary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary and tetradic colors. You could create a color scheme by selecting a primary color, and analogous color for blending, and a tetradic color for accent.
What We Do: Good grief! We’re not art majors. We just want to color pages for fun. All we need to know is what colors blend, contrast and accent the color we choose for the main subject on the page. For example:
Red Color: colors that blend with red: violet , red-violet , red-orange , orange color that contrasts with red: green colors used as accents with red: yellow , blue
Yellow Color: colors that blend with yellow: orange , yellow-orange , yellow-green , green color that contrasts with yellow: violet colors used as an accent with yellow: blue , red
Blue Color: colors that blend with blue: green , blue-green , blue-violet , violet color that contrasts with blue: orange colors used as an accent with blue: red , yellow
How can the above colors be used on a coloring page? Colors in interior decorating, fashion, and on coloring pages should be 60%, 30% and 10%. Think of a man’s suit. His suit is 60% of a color, his shirt is 30% of a blending color, and his tie is 10% of an accent color.
Imagine a coloring page with a bird and flowers. If the main subject is the bird, you could color the bird blue; the leaves green; the flowers violet and blue violet. You could color the bird’s beak orange to add contrast and a few flowers yellow or red for accent.
Note: If you use a pale color for the main subject, then blending, contrast and accent colors should be pale. If you use a bright color, then blending, contrast and accent colors should be bright. In other words, all colors on the page should be the same intensity.