Harmony

A pleasing arrangement of elements in a painting. You can find harmonies in shapes, lines, edges, and colors and is analogous to the harmonies between individual notes in music

traidic harmonyColor harmony derives partly from the relationship of hues to each other in a painting. Color harmonies are commonly described using a color wheel. These wheels show the relationship of the hues. There are four major types of color harmonies you need to know about. They are:

  • balanced
  • complementary
  • analogous
  • hybrid analogous and complementary

See the Color Building Block for more information.


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