The Colour Wheel

The colour wheel is made up of various colours, in the middle, one can find the 3 primary colours; red, blue and yellow, these 3 colours are the only ones that cannot be created by mixing other colours together, therefore we call them the primary colours.

Through the primary colours one is able to create the other colours in the spectrum, thus creating the secondary colours.

In the colour wheel below one can see that there are more colours available, these are called the tertiary colours which are created by mixing the primary colours with the secondary colours.

The opposite colours in the colour wheel are in fact complementary colours, meaning that these colours contrast each other making them more aesthetically pleasing.

Analogous colours on the three colours which are represented next to each other, where one colour more dominant over the other two colours. 

The colour wheel can also be split up in warm and cool colours meaning that the warmer colours have a tendency to remind us of heat, such as red, orange and yellow whereas the cooler colours have a tendency to remind us of cooler environments such as purple, blue and green.