Color Basics
Types of Color
Color Schemes
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100
This is another word for color.
What is hue?
100
Name the three primary colors.
What are red, yellow, and blue?
100
This is a color scheme that uses various tints and shades of a single color.
What is monochromatic?
100

An art tool used to organize colors.

Color Wheel

200
This refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
200
Name the three secondary colors.
What are orange, violet, and green?
200
This is a color scheme that uses colors that are next to each other with a single color in common. For example, red, red-orange, and red-violet.
What is analogous?
200

A condition where you can smell colour

What is Synesthesia?

300
This is created by adding white to a color.
What is a tint?
300
Name three warm colors.
What are red, yellow, and orange?
300
This is a color scheme that uses two colors that are directly opposite on the color wheel. For example, blue and orange.
What is complementary?
300

This photoreceptor possesses colors and comes in three types being red, blue, and green

What are cones?

400
This is created by adding black to a color.
What is a shade?
400
Name three cool colors.
What are blue, violet, and green?
400
This is the color scheme that uses one color and the two colors on either side of its opposite on the color wheel. For example, violet, yellow-green, and yellow-orange.
What is split-complementary?
400

What is the definition of a Tertiary Color?

A color produced by mixing two secondary colors.

500
This is a plan for organizing color in a work of art.
What is a color scheme?
500
Name the six intermediate colors.
What are red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, and yellow-orange?
500
This is the color scheme that uses three colors spaced at equal distances apart on the color wheel. For example, orange, violet, and green.
What is triad?
500

Why are cool colours "cool" and warm colours "warm?"

Blues, Greens, and purples of the color spectrum that are associated with water, sky, ice, and cooler temperatures.


The reds, oranges, and yellows of the color spectrum associated with fire, heat, sun, and warmer temperatures.

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