Color Theory
Color Harmonies
Paint Usage Rules
Impressionism
Women's History Month
100

The 3 pigment colors that cannot be formed by any combination of other colors. All other colors are derived from these 3 hues. (Red, Blue, and Yellow)

The Primary Colors

100

A color harmony using only tints and shades of just one color or hue (example: pure blue, tinted blue, and shaded blue).

Monochromatic Color Harmony

100

You poor your paint in this size amount in your palette. 

PEA-SIZE

100

Impressionism uses these to guide viewers around the painting. 

Bold Brushstrokes 

100

The Amendment # to the constitution that gave women the right to vote. 

19th amendment 

200

Made by mixing the primary colors (green, purple, orange).

The Secondary Colors

200

A color harmony using hues that sit across from each other on the color wheel (example: red and green).

Complimentary Color Harmony 

200

Washed brushes are stored with the brush-tip facing this direction. 

UP.

200

The name of the first Impressionist painting. 

Impression, Sunrise

200

Women have had the right to vote for these many years.

100 years. 

300

These are the colors formed by mixing a primary and a secondary color. That's why the hue is a two-word name, such as blue-green, red-violet, and yellow-orange (yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green & yellow-green).

The Tertiary Colors

300

A color harmony using colors that are next to each other on the color wheel (example: red, orange, and red-orange are analogous colors because they are beside each other on the color wheel).

Analogous Color Harmony 

300

Tables should be covered with this before painting ALWAYS.

Tablecloth. 

300

Technique of building up layers of different colors on the canvas in a way which allows lower layers to be exposed.

Broken Colors

300

The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.

Feminism

400

The intensity or purity of the hue.

Saturation

400

A color harmony using 3 colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel (example: green, orange, purple).

Triadic Color Harmony

400

If you spill paint, you should clean it with either one of these two things. 

Wet sponge or papertowel. 

400

The way our eyes will optically mix two distinct colors which are closely intertwined.

Optical Color Mixing

400

The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, she opened the skies to other women. In 1937 while attempting to become the first person to fly around the world, her plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.

Amelia Earhart

500

The difference between two hues. Colors that are directly across from one another on a basic color wheel provide maximum contrast (more contrast between red and green than between red and orange).

Contrast.

500

A color harmony considered to be blacks, whites, greys, and some tans. They are called neutral because they have minimal impact on an art piece or composition.

Neutral Color Harmony

500

The person in charge of cleaning up supplies rotates/changes this often. 

DAILY

500

French Painter famous for starting the Impressionist movement.


Claude Monet

500

The 19th-century women’s movement’s most powerful organizer. Together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she fought for women’s right to vote. She was also very involved in the fight against slavery and the temperance campaign to limit the use of alcohol.

Susan B. Anthony

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