Color Theory
What is the color wheel?
A wheel consisting of colors of the rainbow. (Does not include brown, white or black. )
What two primary colors make green?
Blue and yellow make green.
How do you create a secondary color?
By mixing two primary colors together. (For example: red and yellow make orange)
What is a shade of a color?
A shade is any color plus black.
What does it mean to wedge the clay?
Wedging the clay is used when a person leans into the clay and pushes on it to release the air bubbles.
ROYGBIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet)
What two primary colors make orange?
Red and yellow make orange.
What are the warm colors? (hint think of the sun)
Red, Orange, Yellow.
What is hue another word for?
Hue is another word for color.
What is a clay coil?
A coil in clay appears like a snake.
What does I in ROYGBIV stand for?
Indigo
What are the three primary colors?
Red, Yellow and Blue.
What are the three cool colors?
The cool colors are blue, green and purple.
What does it mean what an artist uses expressive color in their painting.
Expressive color means that the artist is trying to use color to express different emotions.
A palette is where an artist puts and mixes their paint.
What does "V" in Roygbiv stand for?
Violet
What is a primary color?
A color that no other color can create.
What does tint mean?
Any color plus white.
What does a monochromatic color scale show?
A monochromatic color scale show a single color from light to dark.
What is a kiln?
A kiln is an oven artists use to heat up and dry their clay.
What two primary colors make purple?
Red and blue make purple.
What are the three secondary colors?
Orange, green and purple.
What is tone?
Any color plus grey.
How can an artist emphasize a certain subject or object in their painting?
An artist will use either light or color to emphasize a figure or certain object in their painting. Sometimes and artist will have light that shines down from a window and will reflect onto their subject.
What are ceramics?
Ceramics are finished pieces of clay or pottery that has been fired (fired in the oven) or air dried.