This is an open forum for people to share ideas, give reviews and discuss art theories. I will kick it off with some basic theories of colour. Recently I helped a friend choose colours for his interior walls. It was too orange and dominated the other colours. I suggested that he add a bit of blue to the orange to mute it.
Complementary opposites are two colours juxtaposed on the colour wheel.
The colour wheel is made up of the primary colours, red, yellow and blue and the secondary colours, green, orange and purple that are made from mixing two primaries together. Complimentary opposites consist of one primary colour and the secondary colour that does not have that primary colour in it, eg Green is made from mixing blue and yellow, therefore its complimentary opposite is red. There are many ways of using complimentary opposites. By mixing them together at varying quantities you will achieve colours that compliment either of the initial colours. Mix them together so that they no longer resemble either colour and you will have a black or grey that compliments the initial colours.