These small, tent-style cards needed to be different but look like a series and be easy and inexpensive. The time-saving solution? A single piece of stock art colored a dozen ways. This 28-page article from issue 49 of Before&After Magazine shows you how to take a a spin around the color wheel and turn one graphic into a dozen.
To color the card easily and successfully, colors can’t be picked willy-nilly; we need to understand color relationships. Our color wheel reduces millions of colors to the twelve basics from which all others are made.
© John McWade/Before&After Magazine, courtesy of Gaye Anne McWade.
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