When using the primaries as your selected palette, the color selection is called a triad. The triad contains three colors that are equidistant from one another on the color wheel. Last time, I looked at the color wheel to help with color selections and found that each of the primaries has many different choices.
There are many choices of yellows and reds and blues.
The tetrad contains four colors. The primary triad can be the basis for a tetrad. The shape of this tetrad is a kite shape.
Primary Triad
Tetrad Shape
Choose your three primaries and you will see that there are three colors that lay between each of the primaries on the color wheel.
Choose the middle color that lies between any two adjacent primaries. You will now have a palette of four colors.
Did you notice that the fourth color in each of the tetrads is a secondary?
Each of these choices can be painted as a warm dominance painting or a cool dominance painting or a neutral dominance painting.
I now, have nine choices from which to create my work – the three tetrads and three ways to present each tetrad.
Choose the triad that is closely related to the primary triad and create tetrads with it – Cadmium Yellow Orange, Magenta, and Cerulean Blue.
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