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

“The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure or it wont be art at all.” -Victor Vasarely Victor Vasarely (1908b-1997d) Op Art The inventor of Op art during the 1050’s. He produced hard edge painting designed to create powerful optical illusions. is an abstract art based on mathematics. Usually simple forms are repeated and along with colors often create vibrating effects.

Focal Point: the center of interest or activity. Visual Perception: Artworks that examine the subjectivity of the human visual process and its effect on art practice. Depth Perception: is the visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions (3D) and the distance of an object.

DEPTH-How deep or three-dimensional an artwork looks DEPTH-How deep or three-dimensional an artwork looks. The illusion of space can be created using color, line, and shape. VALUE-Refers to the lightness and darkness of what is seen. CONTRAST- art experts refer to the arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark colors, rough vs. smooth textures, large vs. small shapes, etc.) in a piece so as to create visual interest, excitement and drama. The colors white and black provide the greatest degree of contrast. Complimentary Colors also highly contrast with one another.