Color Wheel#1
What are the Primary Colors?
Red, Yellow, Blue
Name 3 Warm Colors.
Red, orange, Yellow.
What are the Secondary Colors?
purple, orange, green
Give a definition of a secondary color and name one example.
A secondary color is made by mixing two primary colors, for example green, orange, or purple.
What is a shade?
When you add black to a color.
What is a tint?
When you add white to a hue.
Red is both a____color and a Warm color.
Red is both a Primary color and a Warm color.
What are Complimentary colors?
Any color on the opposite side of the color wheel.
What is a tone?
When you add neutral gray to a color.
Is Blue a Primary or Secondary color?
Primary
Is it possible to make any of the primary colors?
No
Give an example of a Complimentary color scheme.
red-green, purple-yellow, blue-orange
Which would represent the ocean, Warm colors or Cool colors
Cool Colors
Is orange a Warm color or a Cool color?
Warm
Which colors would represent the sun, warm colors or cool colors?
Warm colors
Red and Blue when mixed together make what color?
Purple
What is a Tertiary color?
Every color in between the primary and secondary colors.
Name 3 Cool colors.
Green, Blue, Purple
What two colors are mixed together to get the color green.
Blue and Yellow
Name 3 neutral colors.
White, black, gray, brown.
Why do we call them "Primary" colors?
Because they can create all of the colors in the color wheel.
Name 3 different tertiary colors.
Red-violet, blue-violet, red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green,blue-green.
List all three secondary colors and match each one with the two primary colors that make it.
Green = blue + yellow; orange = red + yellow; purple (violet) = red + blue.
You mix yellow with a different primary color and get green. Which primary color did you add, and what type of color is green on the color wheel?
Blue, green is a secondary color
You want to mix many different colors, but you only have three paints. Explain why it is important to start with the primary colors.
Because primary colors (red, yellow, blue) are the basic colors used to mix many other colors