The colour theory.

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The color theory is a theory that many creatives use today to help create their work. The colour wheel is a device that was invented by Isaac newton in  1666. It was based on the three primary colours red,yellow and blue. It has since then been developed further by scientists and artists.

Primary colours.
Primary colours (red,yellow,blue) are the colours that we mix together to create a secondary colour (orange,green,purple) you then mix these to a primary colour or to the same colour group to create a tertiary colour such as browns and greys. You can then make a colour look cold or warm by adding tints (white) , shades (black) and tones (grey).

Color harmony.
Color harmony is visually pleasing and creates a good sense of balance to the eye. When colours do not harmonious it can often not look eye catching.

Color harmony formulas.
Analogous colours are any three colours that are adjacent to each other on the colour wheel (yellow,orange,green).

Complementary colours.
 Complementary colors are colours that are opposite each other on the colour wheel (green, red) creating stability to the eye.

Using complimentary colour to contour and highlight.

Lara highlighted the face first with a yellow eye shadow after applying a thin base.
Highlighting

• Center of the forehead.
• center of the nose.
• cupids bow.
• underneath the chin.
• triangle underneath the eyes.
• Inner corners of the eyes.
• Highest arch of the brow.

Contour. She then contoured using the complementary purple.

• Underneath the cheekbones.
• Underneath the jawline.
• The temples.
• Outer corner of he eye.
• Sides of the nose.

She used different brushes to create different shades and textures.

The Lara went on to use a white garlic paint and made some random lines and squiggles over some of the highlighted and contoured areas. I thought hits really ought the look to life!

We then all had a go at it which was extremely fun as I have documented on my contouring post!