{"id":12860,"date":"2023-10-09T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cours-de-peinture.net\/chromatic-circle-how-to-use-it\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:40:47","slug":"chromatic-circle-how-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cours-de-peinture.net\/en\/chromatic-circle-how-to-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Chromatic circle: How to use it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’ve heard about it many times, but you don’t know what it’s for. The color wheel is an indispensable tool in acrylic painting<\/strong>, whether you’re creating abstract or figurative works. <\/p>\n\n

which allows you to combine the right colors in a painting to create a harmonious whole! <\/p>\n\n

But let’s go even further! Ideally, you should create your own color wheel<\/strong> to understand how colors mix and react with each other. With a little practice, you’ll be able to handle colors and their mixtures with ease, and the association of hues will hold no secrets for you! <\/p>\n\n

Acrylic paint tubes: the 3 primary colors<\/h2>\n\n

Good news! There’s no need to leave half your paycheck in the acrylic paint tube aisle at your favorite art store. Simply equip yourself with 3 essential tubes of acrylic paint<\/a><\/strong> the 3 primary colors! <\/p>\n\n

The primary colors are : <\/p>\n\n

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\ud83d\udd8c\ufe0f magenta red, also called primary red (although it’s not red at all, but rather a little pinkish), <\/p>\n\n

\ud83d\udd8c\ufe0f cyan blue, or primary blue, <\/p>\n\n

\ud83d\udd8c\ufe0f cadmium yellow: primary yellow. <\/p>\n\n

By simply mixing these 3 basic colors <\/strong>, you’ll obtain all the colors of the color wheel, and many more besides!<\/p>\n\n

Of course, flashy, silver, metallic and copper colors are excluded. <\/p>\n\n

What is the color wheel?<\/h2>\n\n

If you search the net, you’ll find all kinds of chromatic circles. There are no good or bad ones, and the one I’m proposing is simple to make. It makes it much easier to understand how colors mix and react to each other. <\/p>\n\n

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Cool colors in painting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The color wheel is the set of colors that can be obtained in acrylic paint by representing only pure hues, in the form of a disk.<\/p>\n\n

How to make a color wheel<\/h2>\n\n

Making your own color wheel will help you get the hang of color mixing.<\/p>\n\n

To do this, you need : <\/p>\n\n