The First Colors
What are the Primary Colors?
Red, Yellow, and Blue
What are the secondary colors?
Orange, Violet, and Green
What is the term; tints and shades of one color?
Monochromatic Color Scheme
How do you make a tint?
A color and white mixed together.
Reason why an artist would use complementary colors together?
To make them pop/stand out.
Why are the primary colors called primary?
They are the colors that create all other colors. You cannot create these colors.
What is red + yellow?
Orange
What is the term; 2 colors opposite from each other on the color wheel?
Complementary Color Scheme
How do you make a shade?
A color and black mixed together.
A technique used to make a monochromatic color scheme with colored pencils.
Press lighter and harder.
When you mix the primary colors equally you get what?
A Neutral Color
What is yellow + blue?
Green
What is the term; 3 colors next to each other on the color wheel?
Analogous
Give an example of an Analogous color scheme.
Any 3 colors next to each other on color wheel
Ex. yellow, yellow green, green
A technique used to make a monochromatic color scheme with watercolors.
Add more or less water.
What happens when you mix 1 primary and 1 secondary color together?
An intermediate (tertiary) color is formed
What is red + blue?
Violet
Name the warm colors and something in nature that helps you remember them.
Red, orange, yellow
Fire, sun
How do you make intermediate (tertiary) colors?
Mixing 1 Primary and 1 Secondary colors together.
List the 3 examples of the Complementary Color Scheme.
Red & Green, Yellow & Violet, Orange & Blue
What happens when you mix 2 primary colors?
A secondary color is formed
What is another name for Violet?
Purple
Name the cool colors and something in nature that helps you remember them.
Blue, Green, Purple (Violet)
water, shade of green tree, sky as sun is setting
When you mix 2 complementary colors together what do they create?
A Neutral Color
BONUS: You explain why
Explain positive and negative space.
Positive= the image/object
Negative= the space around the positive space