Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network Sept 2019 Cake! Magazine | Page 14

Step 10: HARMONIUS COLOUR SCHEMES A colour wheel can help to decide what colours to put together when designing a cake. TRIAD COLOUR SCHEME Using any three colours equally spaced from each other on the colour wheel creates a triad colour scheme. The green, violet and orange on the first tile photo is an example of a triad colour scheme. PAINTING CIRCLES Using at least two, but no more than five consecutive colours that are adjacent to each other on the colour wheel creates an analogous colour scheme. This tile has been designed using blue, blue-green, green, yellow-green and yellow. Step 11: PAINTING CIRCLES A round cutter can be used as a guide to etch a faint line with a scribe or toothpick. A combination of a small flat brush and a fine detail brush were used to paint the pattern. Step 12: MONOCHROMATIC COLOUR SCHEME Using any tint, tone or shade of just one colour. Adding white has changed the tint. Adding black has changed the shade. Creating grey with equal amounts of black and white has changed the tone. Step 13: C OMPOSITION, ODD NUMBERS AND THE EYE Even numbers create symmetry, but odd numbers create interest. An odd number of items force your eyes to move around the grouping and therefore more effective at capturing your gaze. Each colour, tone, shade and tint has been repeated an odd number of times. Step 14: COMPLIMENTARY COLOUR SCHEME Using any two colours directly opposite each other on the colour wheel. On this tile it’s a primary colour (blue) and a secondary colour (orange). A small flat brush was used to create a random pattern. Step 15: SPLIT COMPLIMENTARY COLOUR SCHEME Using any colour with the two colours on each side of its compliment. On this tile the yellow was tinted with white. The compliment on the wheel to yellow is violet (blue and red mixed together). The adjacent colours to violet are blue- violet (adding more bluet to the violet) and red-violet (adding more red to the violet). A flower cutter and scribe were used to help draw the flower pattern. A soft flat brush is good to use when painting a large area.