Color Wheel
Definitions
Color Schemes
Color Mixing
Definitions II
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What is the number of colors on the color wheel?
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red, yellow, and blue
What are the primary colors?
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red, yellow, and orange
What are the warm colors?
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Adding white to lighten a color.
What is tint?
100
Another word for color.
What is hue?
200
complementary
What are colors located across from each other on the color wheel?
200
Colors made by mixing one primary and one secondary.
What are intermediate colors?
200
A color scheme using only tints and shades of a single color.
What is monochromatic?
200
Adding black to darken a color.
What is shade?
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The lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
300
analogous
What are colors located next to one another on the color wheel?
300
orange, green, and violet
What are the secondary colors?
300
A color scheme composed of three colors next to each other on the color wheel.
What is an analogous color scheme?
300
A color created by mixing together a primary color and a secondary color.
What is an intermediate/tertiary color?
300
The difference between a light color and a dark color.
What is contrast?
400
intermediate
What are colors located between primary and secondary colors on the color wheel?
400
Colors not found on the color wheel.
What are neutral colors?
400
A color scheme composed of two colors found directly across the color wheel from each other.
What is a complementary color scheme?
400
When double loading your paintbrush, this color should be loaded first.
What is white?
400
Importance given to certain objects or areas in an artwork. The focal point. The center of interest.
What is emphasis?
500
triad
What is a group of colors evenly spaced around the color wheel?
500
The brightness or dullness of a color.
What is intensity?
500
red, blue, and yellow is an example of this category of color scheme.
What is triadic?
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To change a color's brightness or dullness by adding its complement involves this color concept.
What is intensity?
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The quality of seeming whole and complete with all parts looking right together (a principle of design).
What is unity?
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