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.