1/5/2024 0 Comments Faircrofts antiques![]() ![]() This is the easiest way to find a great shadow color that will result in deep, dark shadows.įor example, if you are working with red, green-which is opposite red-is a great shadow color to layer onto the red.īlue is opposite orange and is a great shadow color to layer onto the orange. Look for colors that are opposite one another on the color wheel-these are called complements. =>get a very affordable color wheel here<= On the color wheel: ![]() Note: if you really wantmore in depth information on color theory (inquiring minds haveto know – yes, I’m one of those people haha! ), please refer to my post on color theory.Īnd, if you don’t have a color wheel of your own, click the link below: They are affiliate links – Learn more here. This article contains product links for your convenience. Look at this color wheel and read on and you will be all set. Please don’t click off!! This is not going to be complicated I promise! I mean using complementary (opposite) colors from the color wheel. Thank Heaven for ComplementsĪnd I don’t mean “ oh, hey, that’s nice shading!” (that would be compl- i-ment lol). Note: I will, however, sometimes add black to a shadow (never for light colors) to deepen the shadow color, but never by itself as a shadow color. Notice how the swatches using black for shadow just look harsh and lifeless and doesn’t really work well as the black more or less overpowers it and makes it look – well, yuk! The use of black is a surefire way to deaden your subject. Gray is great, however, when it’s being used to tone down the vibrancy of a color, but it’s not for shading. See for yourself how the use of gray just dulls your color down without really creating a shadow. Look at the swatches shown in the gray column. Many people may think that shadows are just gray or black and they can simply use those colors to create shadows. Not what you want! No Black or Gray Please So you can obviously see that on the squares on the left, I have just used the same main color to shade.īut instead of shading, it merely increased or intensified the main color. I will be referring to this as I show you the difference in using one color, gray, black and something called complements. The reason that doesn’t work is that all it does is increase the intensity of the color but does not actually darken it or make it look shaded. ![]()
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