Primary Colors
Secondary Colors
Tertiary Colors and Color Meanings
Color Schemes
COLOR
100
These 3 colors cannot be created by mixing other colors together.
What is RED, YELLOW, and BLUE?
100
This secondary color goes by two names.
What is VIOLET or PURPLE?
100
This color can make you think of or feel: nature, growth, safe, harmony, money, greed, jealousy, or lack of experience.
What is GREEN?
100
This color scheme is created by choosing colors that are opposites on the color wheel.
What is COMPLEMENTARY?
100
Mixing white into any color creates this.
What is a TINT?
200
When you mix the primary colors YELLOW and BLUE you create this color.
What is GREEN?
200
When you mix these two primary colors you create the secondary color GREEN.
What is BLUE and YELLOW?
200
This color makes you think of or feel: pure, innocent, clean, safe, cold, and distant.
What is WHITE?
200
This color scheme is created by using one color with all of its tints, shades, and tones.
What is MONOCHROMATIC?
200
Mixing black into any color creates this?
What is a SHADE?
300
When you mix the primary colors RED and YELLOW you create this color.
What is ORANGE?
300
When mixing the two primary colors YELLOW and RED you create this secondary color.
What is ORANGE?
300
This color can make you think of or feel: power, elegance, sophistication, depth, death, mystery, the unknown, mourning, sorrow.
What is BLACK?
300
When using this color scheme the artworks tend to feel violent or unsettling.
What is COMPLEMENTARY?
300
Mixing gray into any color creates this.
What is a TONE?
400
These 3 colors can be mixed to create all colors on the color wheel.
What are RED, YELLOW, & BLUE?
400
When mixing the two primary colors RED and BLUE you create this secondary color.
What is VIOLET or PURPLE?
400
You create a TERTIARY or INTERMEDIATE color by mixing these two types of colors.
What is PRIMARY and SECONDARY.
400
A group of colors that work well together. This tells you which colors to use.
What is a COLOR SCHEME?
400
Color is only visible because of this.
What is LIGHT?
500
Using primary colors in a painting gives these feelings.
What is bold, solid, & strong?
500
These 3 colors are created by mixing 2 primary colors together.
What is VIOLET, ORANGE, & GREEN?
500
Tertiary or Intermediate colors are written in this particular order.
What is the PRIMARY COLOR, a - (hyphen), then the SECONDARY COLOR.
500
This color scheme creates artworks that appear unsettling and whimsical.
What is SECONDARY?
500
We use this for: determining, mixing, and selecting colors.
What is a COLOR WHEEL?
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