Color Wheel Tool helps you to choose right color for matspicture frame

There are various techniques that are present today which professionals employ to shorten the

process of choosing the right color for frames, especially matting. A color wheel is great tool to

make correct decision about the right color to choose. With this color wheel artist and framer can

choose the correct color for their Mat or color for other components of the frame

A color wheel also known as color circle is a pictorial representation of colors arranged

according to their chromatic relationship.

Primary Colors: They are the basic color and are used to create other by mixing them together

Secondary Colors: They are attained by mixing two primary colors

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Tertiary Colors: They are achieved by mixing primary and secondary hues.

Complementary Colors: As shown below they are located opposite to each other on a color

wheel.

Analogous Colors: Colors that are located close together on a color wheel are analogous colors.

Active & Passive colors

A color wheel can be further divided into ranges that represent active or passive color. When

passive color are placed against active colors they seem to advance and passive colors seem to

recede

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Hues that are advancing have less visual weight than the ones that are receding. Warm, saturated, light value hues are "active" Cool, low saturated, dark value hues are "passive" Tints or hues with a low saturation appear lighter than shades or highly saturated colors. Some colors remain visually neutral or indifferent.

Color Relationships

They are represented on a color triangle on a color wheel

Painter’s Triangle: In this red, blue and yellow are primary hues. This triangle is most often

used in art classes

Printers Triangle: This color is used in printing process and magenta, cyan, and yellow are

primary hues.

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Nine-part harmonic triangle of Goethe: They are basically printer's primaries; the secondaries

formed are the painter's primaries; and the resulting tertiaries formed are dark neutrals.

Complementary Colors

A color wheel is a great tool the see the relationship among colors. The colors that are opposite to

each other are complementary colors.

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Complementary colors when used are able to bring out the best in each other. When saturated

complements are used they create vibrant and interesting effects.

For framing use color wheels to choose the right color balance between the art and framing that

surrounds it. The best idea is to identify secondary color in the art and use it as the value and

temperature of the art as a whole.

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