COLOR THEORY

Color Wheel

* The first color wheel was created by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666 a way of illustrating and organizing colors around a circle. Used to show the relationships between primary, secondary and tertiary colors. * The first color wheel was created by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666

THE PRIMARY COLORS

*mixing all three primary colors will make brown THE PRIMARY COLORS RED, YELLOW, & BLUE *mixing all three primary colors will make brown

THE SECONDARY COLORS

ORANGE, GREEN & VIOLET (PURPLE) THE SECONDARY COLORS ORANGE, GREEN & VIOLET (PURPLE)

ORANGE, GREEN & VIOLET (PURPLE) THE SECONDARY COLORS ORANGE, GREEN & VIOLET (PURPLE) *Mixing two primary colors together will get you a secondary color. RED + YELLOW = ORANGE RED + BLUE = VIOLET YELLOW + BLUE = GREEN

TERTIARY COLORS

TERTIARY COLORS Mixing a PRIMARY color with a SECONDARY color. Tertiary colors are named by saying the PRIMARY COLOR FIRST

TERTIARY COLORS red-orange, red-violet yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet

TERTIARY COLORS

COMPLIMENTARY COLORS

colors that are directly opposite each other on a color wheel COMPLIMENTARY COLORS colors that are directly opposite each other on a color wheel

What is an example of a complimentary color? *mixing complimentary colors will make GRAY

ANALOGOUS COLORS

any three colors that are next to each other on a color wheel ANALOGOUS COLORS any three colors that are next to each other on a color wheel

ANALOGOUS COLORS

What are the 3 WARM Colors?

What are the 3 WARM Colors? Red Orange Yellow

What are the 3 COOL Colors?

What are the 3 COOL Colors? Green Blue Purple