The Color Wheel
How many primary colors are there and what are the primary colors?
There are three, they are Red, blue, and yellow
What are complimentary colors?
Colors across each other on the color wheel.
Yellow-green is combination of what two colors?
Yellow and green.
What two colors are used to make orange?
Red and yellow
What are the warm colors?
Red, yellow and orange
How many secondary colors are there and what are the secondary colors?
There are three and they are Green, purple, and orange
Red is the compliment of what color?
Green
How do you make red-orange?
Combine red and orange.
What two colors make purple?
Blue and red
Blue, green and purple are ______ colors.
Cool colors
Intermediate colors are a combination of one _____ and one ______ color on the color wheel.
One primary and one secondary color.
What color compliments purple?
Yellow
How many intermediate colors are there?
There are six
Yellow and blue make what complimentary color?
Green
What colors help objects in an artwork stand out, warm or cool?
Warm colors
Name all of the colors in the color wheel.
Red
Red-orange
Orange
Yellow-orange
Yellow
Yellow-green
Green
Blue-green
Blue
Blue-purple
Purple
Red-purple
What are complimentary colors?
Colors that contrast each other and are across from each other on the color wheel.
What is the compliment of blue-green?
Yellow-orange
What are secondary colors?
A mixture of two primary colors.
What colors would be best used color adding shadows and dark values in an artwork? Warm or cool?
Cool colors
What two "colors" are not included in the color wheel?
*HINT* they are used for tints and shades
Black and white
What color is complimentary to yellow-green?
Red-purple
Name all of the intermediate colors.
Blue-green, yellow-green, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, yellow-orange
Name all three secondary colors?
Green, purple, orange
What are the ascending and receding colors?
Ascending colors are warm and receding colors are cool.