Colour Theory

I was watching Polina Oshu's my stories on Instagram and she was talking about colour theory and explaining how it works. Looking at the colour theory has never been something I did. I always just went with my instincts when picking colours. But this year I wanted to have a bit more consideration giving that my glazes come out different colours to what one thinks so if I planned my colours out It would make it easier.

Click here to see my blog post on Polina Oshu

After watching her stories which are linked on the side here, I began researching Itten's colour theory.

Itten assigned colour qualities like warm and cool to describe how colours react with each other and how they affect people physically and psychologically.

TWELVE STEP COLOR WHEEL

'Itten organised his colour wheel using primary, secondary and tertiary arrangements. The primary colours are yellow, red and blue. They are placed in the equilateral triangle with yellow at the top, red in the lower right and blue at the lower left. Above this triangle is another circle, in which a hexagon is inscribed. In the isosceles triangles between adjacent sides of the hexagon, are three mixed colours, each composed of two primaries. These are the secondary colours. At a radius outside the first circle is another circle, divided into twelve equal sectors. In this ring are the primary and secondary colours leaving a blank section after each colour. In these blank sections are the tertiary colours each of which result from mixing a primary with a secondary colour' - The colour Journal