Types of Colors 1
Mixing Colors
Bonus: Complementary Colors
Bonus: Types of Color 2
Misc
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What are primary colors? What do they do and which colors are primary?
They make all other colors. Yellow, blue, and red.
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How do you make green?
Mix blue and yellow.
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What color is complementary to orange on the color wheel?
Blue
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List 3 warm colors.
Red, orange, yellow.
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What another name for purple?
Violet.
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What colors are secondary colors? How are they made?
Green, orange, and purple. You mix a primary color with another primary color.
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How do you make purple?
Mix blue and red.
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What color is complementary to green on the color wheel?
Red
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List 3 cool colors.
Blue, purple, green.
200
What type of color is yellow?
Primary
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Yellow green is what type of color?
Tertiary
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How do you make orange?
Mix yellow and red.
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What color is complementary to purple on the color wheel?
Yellow
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Why are complementary colors called "complementary colors"?
They are across from each other on the color wheel.
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What is Value

The Lightness or darkness of a color

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Give 3 examples of tertiary colors? How you do make tertiary colors?
Yellow orange Mix a primary color with Orange red a secondary color Yellow green Green blue Blue violet Red violet
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How do you make yellow green (lime green)?
Make green by mixing blue and yellow. Add more yellow than blue.
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What color is complementary to yellow green on the color wheel?
Red purple
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What is a color scheme?
The colors chosen. Ex: warm color scheme, monochromatic color scheme.
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What is another name for color?

Hue

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What are the three properties of a color?

Hue, Value, Intensity

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How do you make red purple?
Mix red and blue to make purple. Add more red than blue.
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What color is complementary to red orange on the color wheel?
Blue green
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What are analogous colors? -Don't need to give examples.
3 colors next to each other on the color wheel.
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What is Intensity

The brightness or dullness of a color

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