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Explore primary colours, secondary colours, and harmonious colours. Choices of colour and the relationships between colours have a huge influence on how a piece or art or design looks and feels and the emotions it provokes.

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Brown

The one colour we have not come across yet is brown. Why does it not appear on our colour wheel?

Sometimes you may see brown referred to as a tertiary or a neutral colour.

Brown can be made in a variety of different ways, however three basic brown colours can be made by mixing complementary colours with each other. For example:

A range of complimentary colours that all mix together to make various ranges of brown.
  • Blue + a small amount of orange = Grey-brown
  • Red + a small amount of green = Red-brown
  • Yellow + a small amount of purple = Yellow-brown

By varying the amounts of each of these colours it is possible to make a large range of browns.