Color Wheel Basics
Artists organize color into a circle chart with pie pieces. We call this the....
Color Wheel
Name the primary colors
Red, Blue, and Yellow
A color found between a primary + a secondary is called a ... ?
Tertiary color
How do you mix orange?
Red + Yellow
How do you mix light blue?
Add white + blue
How many primary colors are there?
3
Name the secondary colors
Orange, Green, and Violet / Purple
FALSE (Blue-Violet!)
How do you mix Green?
Blue + Yellow
How do you mix dark red?
Red + Black
How many secondary colors are there?
3
When you mix a primary + primary = ?
Secondary
What are the Analogous colors surrounding Orange?
Red-Orange, and Yellow-Orange
How do you mix Violet?
Red + Blue
What is an Analogous color?
Three neighboring colors
How many tertiary colors are there?
6
True or False: You can mix two colors together to get a primary color.
FALSE!
What is the complementary of red-violet?
Yellow-Green
How do you mix Blue-Green?
Blue + Green (blue + yellow)
What is the complement and analogous colors for yellow?
Violet, Yellow-Green and Yellow-Orange
How many colors are on the color wheel?
12
What is a complementary color?
Colors that are opposites!
Name all the Tertiary colors.
Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, Red-Violet
What color do you get when you mix two complementary colors together?
Brown
Name all the colors on the color wheel.
Red, Red-Orange, Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow, Yellow-Green, Green, Blue-Green, Blue, Blue-Violet, Violet, Red-Violet