Saponista
Well-Known Member
Welcome to this month’s soap challenge. I am going to try something a little different this month. I always struggle with choosing colour when trying to make my soaps, I always tend to copy other people’s colour schemes or use palettes from places like design seeds. However there are many tools available, used by designers in all different fields to create colour schemes for their designs.
This month we are going to try using an interactive colour wheel to create our own unique colour palettes from scratch and then make a soap using those palettes. There are a lot of free interactive colour wheels around, so you can use any one that you find easiest, just search the web for one. The one I like best can be found here - https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/
There are several different ways of using the colour wheel to pick out your colour scheme, they are called colour harmonies and you can read more detail about them here http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm
Complimentary – Two colours that are completely opposite each other on the wheel
Monochromatic – Different shades of a single colour
Analogous – Shades that are next to each other around the edge of the wheel
Split Complimentary – Two shades adjacent to the compliment colour
Triadic – Colours that are evenly spaced around the wheel
Tetradic – Four colours arranged in two complimentary pairs
It’s really very simple, so please don’t be put off by it seeming complicated, the colour wheel I have linked to just lets you click different buttons to see different colour harmonies for your original start colour. Start with one specific colour that you like and find that on the colour wheel, then choose the colour harmony that you want. You can then further refine your scheme by unchecking the lock box under the colour palette and making minor adjustments to the placing of the dots. You will then have your colour palette. Take a picture of your palette and create your soap using those colours. Also let us know which colour harmony you chose to use.
You can use any design you like, and you can use any number of colours or just a single colour if you choose a monochromatic harmony.
Below is a video of me talking through the interactive colour wheel and also a video of me making the example soap
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R3qpQjWRo4[/ame]
Any queries at all then just let me know.
Please read all the rules below before participating.
This month we are going to try using an interactive colour wheel to create our own unique colour palettes from scratch and then make a soap using those palettes. There are a lot of free interactive colour wheels around, so you can use any one that you find easiest, just search the web for one. The one I like best can be found here - https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/
There are several different ways of using the colour wheel to pick out your colour scheme, they are called colour harmonies and you can read more detail about them here http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm
Complimentary – Two colours that are completely opposite each other on the wheel
Monochromatic – Different shades of a single colour
Analogous – Shades that are next to each other around the edge of the wheel
Split Complimentary – Two shades adjacent to the compliment colour
Triadic – Colours that are evenly spaced around the wheel
Tetradic – Four colours arranged in two complimentary pairs
It’s really very simple, so please don’t be put off by it seeming complicated, the colour wheel I have linked to just lets you click different buttons to see different colour harmonies for your original start colour. Start with one specific colour that you like and find that on the colour wheel, then choose the colour harmony that you want. You can then further refine your scheme by unchecking the lock box under the colour palette and making minor adjustments to the placing of the dots. You will then have your colour palette. Take a picture of your palette and create your soap using those colours. Also let us know which colour harmony you chose to use.
You can use any design you like, and you can use any number of colours or just a single colour if you choose a monochromatic harmony.
Below is a video of me talking through the interactive colour wheel and also a video of me making the example soap
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R3qpQjWRo4[/ame]
Any queries at all then just let me know.
Please read all the rules below before participating.
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