Color Wheel
What are Primary Colors?
Red, Blue, and Yellow
What is a Primary Color?
Warm Colors
Reds, Oranges, Yellows, and Violets / Purples
Subjective
Based on personal feelings, tastes, or opinions
Commercial Art
Commercial artists create art used to sell products, like advertisements found in magazines, on social media, and other outlets.
What are Secondary Colors?
Green, Orange, and Violet
How do you make a Secondary Color?
Primary Color + Primary Color
Cool Colors
Blues, Greens, and Violets / Purples
Objective
Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions. Representing facts.
Expressionism Art
Expressionist art expresses emotional experience, rather than physical reality.
What are the 6 Tertiary Colors?
Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, and Red-Violet
How do you make a Tertiary Color?
Primary Color + Secondary Color
Monochromatic Colors
A color scheme that is variations of one color
Is Color Subjective or Objective?
Subjective
Abstract Art
Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect.
What are Complimentary Colors?
Any 2 colors ACROSS from each other on the color wheel. (EX: Blue and Orange)
What are Tints, Tones, and Shades?
Hue (Color) + White = Tint
Hue (Color) + Grey = Tone
Hue (Color) + Black = Shade
Absence of light
Black
Hue
-The underlying base color of a mixture.
-Both a color and a variation of a color
-Origin Color
An artist from Russia that could see sounds
Wassily Kandinsky
What are Analogous Colors?
Any 3 Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel
What is Saturation?
Presence of Light
White
What is Color?
Light Reflection.
(Light reflecting off of objects and into our vision)
Synesthesia
when your brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated senses, causing you to experience more than one sense simultaneously.
Some examples include tasting words or linking colors to music.