Secondary & Tertiary Colours 

They also found that adding either more blue pigment or more yellow pigment will affect the way a colour looks.

For example if you mix yellow and blue together you make green – but depending on how much yellow or blue you put into the mixture, you end up with a different type of green. 

More yellow – you get a yellower, Kerry green or even a mossy green…more blue, and you get a bluer, emerald green. 

This is true of all colours – pinks (yellower pinks are coral or geranium, and bluer pinks are shocking or fuchsia), blues (yellower blues are aqua or peacock, bluer blues are cornflower or electric). True red is a neutral. Add yellow and you get an orangey red, add blue and you end up with a deeper carmine.

SPRING

Warm yellow based and bright colours – think of geraniums, poppies, newly mown lawns, citrus fruits, apricots, cream, turquoise seas

SUMMER

Cool blue based soft colours – think of an English country garden, sweet peas, cornflowers, anenomes, candyfloss, hyacinths, lilac