For a lot of you this seems like an easy question, but I’m a little confused and would like some clarification. It is said that a color palette contains all of the colors that are or will be used in your project. A color scheme on the other hand is a guide or map.
My question is: If a color palette consists of only blue and yellow, does this mean that only blue and yellow are to be used and nothing else, including black or white? I have other questions that might come up later or it might even be answered by the comments below. I’ll wait.
The color palette of an artwork is simply the colors you chose to use for your work, nothing complicated. Software wise it can also be a list of defined colors for easier picking but it doesn’t affect what colors can appear in your artwork.
So basically a color palette is just a guideline, not necessary something people have to follow strictly? If another artist gives me a palette with 3 colours, the goal is to use these three colours predominantly, but can include pure black or a touch of another color that isn’t in the original palette?
Pretty much. I wouldn’t even count differences in color values as own colors, though but it really depends. One of the reasons to define your colors beforehand is to make sure you can focus on a certain feel and unify the composition in colors, not to go overboard and all over the place.
You can choose any colour you like to paint with. There are various ways of chosing a colour.
You can pick a colour from a palette and there are many different palettes available and more can be imported.
You can pick any colour from the Advanced Colour Selector Hue ring and then go into the triangle to choose a tint/shade of that colour.
Using other more complicated/artistic colour selector dockers that are available, you can limit the range/zone of colours that you can select for use.
The reasons for doing that are to do with colour composition theory and what ‘looks good’, which is beyond my limited understanding. Someone else may be able to explain that to you if you really want to know about it.
Color Palette of the image also called “Color Scheme” which is the more correct name, but commonly people prefer to call it also “Color Palette”. It’s basically set of colors that are present in the image.
"Color Palette "is a side board/surface where an artist stores their colors/paints to be ready to use while working on a painting, often also used for mixing them before applying to the painting.
It can be only yellow and blue, and you can use their ‘built-in’ values or just work with hues and saturation.
Often, tho, artist have some white paint and black paint to control the light and dark values of the color. Sometimes they use other paints instead of black to produce black for their values.
Many impressionists didn’t use white and black or used very little of it, but for realistic painting you have to use black and white paint.
It depends on the style.
Black and white is also useful to control saturation of the color. If you can Yellow and Blue paint, it’s easy to change their saturation because they are more or less on the opposite sides of the Hue Circle, so you can mix them in different proportions to produce different saturations/chroma’s of the Blue and Yellow.
But if you want to use a color scheme that uses analogous Hues (hues that are next to each other on the hue wheel) you would need black and white or gray to control the saturation.