Primary Colors
What are the Primary Colors?
Red, Yellow, and Blue
What are the secondary colors?
Orange, Violet, and Green
What is the color scheme that uses one color and several different tints and shades?
Monochromatic Color Scheme
Define the word tint.
A color and white mixed together.
Color + grey
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 create contrast in your painting? give one example (related to color Theory)
contrast in value (light vs dark) and contrast in color (complementary- opposite on color wheel)
An art tool used to organize colors.
Color Wheel
Give an example of a color you could mix if you mixed two primary colors together.
red + yellow= orange
red + blue= purple
yellow + blue= green
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.
Answers may vary
What is the difference between a shade and a tint?
shade=hue and black
tint=hue and white
What happens when you mix 1 primary and 1 secondary color together?
A tertiary color is formed
What is red + blue?
Violet
__________ color scheme consists of three colors that are equally spaced apart on the color wheel in a triangular shape
Triadic
How do you make tertiary colors?
Mixing 1 Primary and 1 Secondary colors together.
red, pink, yellow, orange
What happens when you mix 2 primary colors?
A secondary color is formed
What happens when you mix a primary and a secondary color together?
Create a tertiary color
_______color scheme features 4 colors spaced apart in a rectangular shape
Tetradic
When you mix 2 complementary colors together what do they create?
A Neutral Color
brown, beige, grey, etc
What is Ms. H's favorite color?
Green