Schemes
The color wheel Can you recognize all the colors by name?
Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Colors mixed with white are called tints. Pink is a tint of red. Colors mixed with black are called shades. Burgundy is a shade of red. Paintings that use only one color and the tints and shades of that color are called monochromatic (one=mono; color=chromatic).
ONE COLOR MIXED WITH BLACK AND WHITE TO CREATE A RANGE OF TINTS AND SHADES OR VALUES
Colors are often associated with moods. For example, we say "green with envy," "a blue mood." Certain colors also look cool, such as blue, green and violet; and others look warm, like red, orange and yellow.
COLORS THAT SUGGEST WARMTH OR COLORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE HOT SUN, FIRE, SUNBURN, OR A DESERT LANDSCAPE.
COLORS THAT SUGGEST COOLNESS OR COLORS ASSOCIATED WITH A COOL POOL OR OCEAN, A COOL BLUE SKY, ICE, OR A COLD WINTER DAY.
Does this painting have a warm or cool color scheme?
Robert Koehler R c Maxfield Parrish, Birches in Winter & Christmas Morning 1949
ANY THREE OR FOUR COLORS THAT ARE NEXT TO EACH OTHER ON THE COLOR WHEEL.
How could this painting be described as analogous? Ed Paschke Painted Lady 1995
How is this painting an example of a triadic color scheme?
Triadic Combinations would be: yellow, red, blue yellow-green, red-orange, blue-violet green, orange, violet blue-green, red-violet, yellow-orange
What triadic color scheme is used in this painting? Nicolas Poussin The Death of Germanicus 1627
Two colors that are directly opposite on the color wheel
What happens when you mix complimentary colors?
What complimentary color scheme is at work in this painting?
Split Complementary Find a compliment scheme like yellow and purple - then choose the colors on either side of one of the complements - like blue- violet and red-violet
PURE COLOR THAT HAS NOT BEEN MIXED WITH IT'S COMPLEMENT OR A NEUTRAL IN COMBINATION WITH A COLOR THAT HAS BEEN MIXED WITH IT'S COMPLEMENT OR A NEUTRAL. THE SAME COLOR WITH DIFFERENT INTENSITY
Sometimes the same color will appear to be two slightly different colors when placed against different backgrounds. The red in the poet's jacket, although the same color used for the foliage in the upper right corner, appears to be a different because of the colors which surround it. Marc Chagall The Poet with the Birds 1911
Black, grey, white, and brown Mood? Bright or Dull?