The Color Wheel

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The Color Wheel
A Brief Review on Color Theory
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Color
The visual response to the wavelengths of
sunlight identified as red, green, blue and so
on having the physical properties of hue,
intensity, and value.
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PRIMARY COLORS
Primary colors are colors from which all other
colors are made.
RED
BLUE
YELLOW
SECONDARY COLORS
Secondary colors that are created from equal
amounts of a pair of primary colors
ORANGE
GREEN
VIOLET
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Tertiary Colors
Tertiary colors are colors made from equal
amounts of a pair of primary and secondary colors.
red-violet blue-violet blue-green
yellow-green yellow-orange red-orange
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Analogous colors
Analogous colors are any three colors which are
side by side on a 12 part color wheel, such as
yellow-green, yellow, and yellow-orange.
Three consecutive colors on the color wheel
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Complementary Colors
Complementary colors are any two colors which are
directly opposite each other in the color wheel.
Examples are red and green, red-purple and
yellow-green. In the illustration, there are
several variations of yellow-green in the leaves
and several variations of red-purple in the
orchid.
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TINT
Tints are light values of a color. One usually
makes tints by mixing a color with different
amounts of white.
SHADE
Shades are dark values of a color. One usually
makes shades by mixing a color with different
amounts of black.
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Monochromatic
A Monochromatic color scheme is one color.
The primary color is integrated with neutral
colors such as black, white, or gray.
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SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY
The split complementary scheme is a variation of
the standard complementary scheme. It uses a
color and the two colors adjacent to its
complementary color.
Triadic Color Scheme
The triadic color scheme uses three colors
equally spaced around the color wheel.
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Lets review what we just learned on our
handhelds.
1. Open up the color review for students
PowerPoint in Docs-To-Go
2. Open it and answer the questions using the
list view.
3. We will review it together