Colour Class with Miriam Ragen - Berry

The key to this palette is a balance of bright colours paired back with darker shades and pale tints. There is also a good range of warm and cool colours in this palette so I thought I'd explain what this means as it can be confusing when you read things like ‘warm blue’ and ‘cool pink’. Growing up if you were taught the colour wheel in art class or as most of us were in primary school you may have been told that one half of the colour wheel is warm and the other half is cool. This is true when talking about primary colours (yellow, red, blue) but doesn’t explain secondary (orange, green, purple) and tertiary colour’s (further shades and tints). Warm or cool can exist in the branches of all hues and a good example of this is when you see a whole range of pinks that sometimes you are drawn to one and not the other. That may be because one is cool and the other is warm which in layman’s terms happens because the ingredients that make up the cooler pink might have a little blue (cool) added in and the warmer pink has more red (warm) added in. The real magic happens though when you style the two together and they make each other look richer and stronger.