"SEC20/WK2: Colour Theory and Application."

Designed by me using canva

Imagine a wall where there is no colour no beautiful flowers no colours attached to plants, no colours to differentiate animals. Everywhere remains white everywhere has the same colour. How do you think such world will be boring right? Yeah that is the reason why the creator created different colours designs and patterns

Well, each light we see is formed by what is called rays which reaches our eyes at a certain angle, of which this angle never changes. Beautiful colours sent out message to audience or even captures the attention of your viewers or readers. It is a good area to take into consideration when sending printed information to others.

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Discuss Colour Theory according to the way you understand it.

Colour theory is an art of creating colourful works using combination of colours together. Therefore using the color theory while creating graphics will enables you to pick colors that rhymes as this will help to convey the right mood in your work to the viewers.

From the lesson, I have learnt that colour theory should be known by a graphic designer so as to enable the person to use accurate colours to make a designs so as to capture the interest of others viewing the graphics. Therefore, rather than using multiple colours that is not even a good combinations, this theory should be known and always look up to anytime we want to make a design.

As discussed in the lesson, colour theory has different scheme so out of the schemes that were discussed, I will be talking about two of it as required of me to do.

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Choose "Two" from the colour scheme discussed, briefly talk about it and demonstrate with two examples each showing how to combine colours using that scheme.

Triadic colors: as the name implies "tri" which means tripple, has to do with three colour set spaced round the colour wheel which are combined together to create a beautiful design.

Therefore, when an equal triangle is placed on a color wheel, each point of the triangle will be pointing to three different colours. Then when this three colors are combined, they have a traditional triadic color scheme. Also, while decorating, a designer need to choose one particular colour out of the three colors to be the main color in the design, then use the other two colours as an accent colors. Using this schemes will make me as a learner to achieving balancing.

See samples below 👇

orange, purple, green	green, red and blue

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Complementary colors: This are two pair colours which are directly opposite each other on the colour wheel and are combined together to create a beautiful and sparkling design because of the high contrast.

The sparkling look the design or graphic it will give will attract viewers to either admire the graphics and be moved to read the caption. This, information is being passed on to the veiwers.

See samples below 👇

blue & yellow	purple & green

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Demonstrate how to get your colour Hex from external object using your Canva design app.

Colour hex code is a code which includes both alphabet and numbers, they are usually 6 digits. They are used to identify a particular shade of colour for graphic. We only know very few colours but there are varieties of shades of colours which can be created through colour hex code for graphic designs.

• Step 1: I opened my canva app, created a working page, then selected gallery to choose an object or element from my gallery.

• Step 2: In my gallery, I located a flier I made using canva app, I selected it so I can use it to create a hex code.

• Step 3: I clicked Add to page as this option pops-up after selecting the image.

• Step 4: here is I again on the workspace, I clicked on the colour icon, a colour wheel appears.

1	2	3	4

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5	6	7	8

• Step 5: I clicked on the colour wheel

• Step 6: Then I clicked on colour picker which is located at the bottom right corner, it takes me back to my workspace with another tool to work with.

• Step 7: Using the pop-up object that appears, I selected a part of the external object that I want to extract then I clicked Done.

• Step 8: Another page opens where the colour hex code is revealed.

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Finally demonstrate how to get the colours behind the hex codes below.

a.#f3ca20
b.#000000
b.#ef9d10f

To complete this tasks, I do the following;

• I created a workspace
• I clicked on colour icon
• I clicked on colour wheel
• Then typed in the different codes to view the colours.

I took a screenshot in each as shown below 👇

#f3ca20	#000000	#ef9d10f

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Thank you for this lecture, it is really helpful, I will like to invite @goodybest, @adylinah and @cive40 to take part in this contest.