Painting 101: Color Vocabulary Review

July 31st, 2009 | Category: DIY

Accenting your home’s architecture with color is an inexpensive way to produce your home look new and improved, particularly whether you’re willing to paint it yourself. Before taking on that task, it helps to become familiar with some basic color vocabulary terms. Choosing a color scheme (a group of colors used to create a visual harmony) is the first step in making your exterior look better. For example, possibly you want to go with blues, reds, yellows, greens, soil tones or neutrals. Cool colors are greens, blues and violets, while warm colors are reds, oranges, yellows and browns. To build a color a tint, you

have to add white to it so it becomes lighter. To build a color a tone, you have to add gray to it. whether you’re trying to create some allusions, keep in intellect that receding colors (cool and light colors) build surfaces seem farther absent.