Colour is a powerful tool for emotional expression and visual impact. Artists utilise colour to evoke mood, convey meaning, and create dynamic compositions. Vibrant hues can evoke joy and energy, while muted tones may evoke tranquillity or melancholy. Colour relationships, such as contrasts and harmonies, add depth and complexity to artworks, guiding the viewer's eye and eliciting emotional responses. Colours in abstract art can also carry symbolic or metaphorical meanings, imbuing the artwork with deeper layers of significance.

• How do I mix colours to create new shades?

  1. Understanding colour harmony is important for mixing colours.

  2. To create new shades take the dominant colour first, then take the secondary colour to change the value of the colour, and at last, take the colour that will change its hue. Increase the % of each according to the colour you need.

  3. Colour mixing is an art in itself, to achieve the colour you want, you have to mix them in proper ratios and check the balance.

  4. The dominant colour’s ratio will be slightly more than the hue colour. For example, to achieve rust colour, the ratio of yellow ochre should be 80% and crimson lake 20%.