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COLOR

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The Color Wheel

ColorIs the visual quality of objects created by the amount of light they

reflect or absorb.

+Color Wheel Vocabulary

Hue- Another word for color

Primary Colors- A color that cannot be mixed from other colors, but from which other colors are made. The primary colors are red, blue and yellow.

Secondary Colors- A color made by mixing two primary colors. The secondary colors are orange, violet, and green.

Intermediate Color- A color that is a mixture or a primary and a secondary color that are next to each other on the color wheel. Blue-green, Red-orange and red violet are example of intermediate colors. (the primary color is always listed first)

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Beachcombers

By Diana Ong 1994

Notice the different values of yellow, blue and violet. Although it looks like a painting this was created using a computer.

+Warm and Cool Colors

Warm colors- The family of colors that includes reds, yellows and oranges. Warm colors bring to mind warm things, places, and feelings.

Yellow, yellow-orange, orange, red-orange, re, red violet

Cool Colors- The family of colors that includes greens, blues, and violets. Cool colors bring to mind cool things, places and feelings.

Violet, blue-violet, blue, blue-green, green, yellow-green

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Bridge Over the Riou 1906Andre Derain

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Color SchemesA plan for combining colors in a work of art.

+Color Schemes Vocabulary

Monochromatic- A color scheme that uses different values of a single hue by showing tints and shades of the same hue.

Analogous- Colors that appear next to each other on the color wheel. Analogous colors have one hue in common. For example, blue, blue-green, and blue violet all contain blue. Also known as related colors.

Complementary- Colors that contrast with one another. Complementary colors are opposite one another on the color wheel.

Neutral- A word used for black white and tints and shades of gray. Some artist use tints and shades of brown as neutrals.

+ Fish Scents

Marilee Whitehouse-Holm

+Value in Color Schemes

Value- The lightness or darkness of a color. Tints have a light value. Shades have a dark value. Value is an element of art

Tints- A light value of a color such as pink that is created by mixing a hue with white. Also the lightness of a color value.

Shades- A color made by adding black to a hue. For example, Adding black to green results in dark green.

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Still LifeVincent Van Gogh