Spectral Color
The Color Wheel
Color Mixing
Color Schemes
100

What is the mnemonic device used to remember all the colors in the rainbow

What is ROY G BIV

100

Name all three Primary colors

What are Blue, Red, & Yellow

100

The color you get after mixing a primary color with a secondary color

(i.e. a set of complimentary colors)

What is brown

100

This color scheme uses different tints, shades, and tones of one color

What is Monochromatic

200

Do rays such as ultraviolet rays, gamma rays, and X-rays have A) shorter and higher wavelengths or B) longer and lower wavelengths

What are A) shorter and higher wavelengths

200

Name all three Secondary colors

What are Green, Orange, & Violet

200

The type of color you get by mixing two Primary colors together

What is a Secondary color
200

This color scheme uses colors that are nearest to each other on the color wheel

What is Analogous

300

Do rays such as infrared, microwaves, and radio waves have A) shorter and higher wavelengths or B) longer and lower wavelengths

What are B) longer and lower wavelengths

300

When considering the temperature effects of color in an artwork, what hues give a cool [cold] effect

What are Blues, Greens, & Violets

300

When adding black to any color, the result is a __________ of that color

What is a shade

300

This color scheme uses colors that are opposite to each other on the color wheel

What is Complimentary

400

The range of light (frequencies) that the human eye can see/process is called the __________ spectrum

What is the visible spectrum

400

When considering the temperature effects of color in an artwork, what hues give a warm effect

What are Reds, Oranges, & Yellows

400

When adding white to any color, the result is a _________ of that color

What is a tint
400

This color scheme uses four colors: two sets of complimentary pairs

What is Tetradic

500

What 'color' would you get by combining all of the spectral colors together

(hint: reverse the prism effect)

What is white [light]

500

Name all six pairs of Tertiary colors

What are Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, Red-Orange, Red-Violet, Yellow-Green, and Yellow-Orange

500

The type of color you get by mixing a Primary color with a Secondary color

What is a Tertiary color

500

This color scheme uses three colors: a single color in addition to the two colors nearest to the single color's compliment (eg. Red + Blue-Green & Yellow-Green)

What is Split-Complimentary

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