Color Wheel Primary Secondary Tertiary
Value - brightness/lightness Intensity - color strength (complements*) Tints - color + white Shades - color + black Tones - color + white and black Hue - pure color (on color wheel)
Saturation - vivid/intensity of a color 2 1 3 Which color has the highest saturation?
Color Schemes - choice of colors in a design Monochromatic - different values of one color Complementary - opposite each other on color wheel Analogous - next to each other on color wheel Split-Complementary - color + 2 colors adjacent to its complement Triadic - 3 colors evenly spaced on color wheel
Picasso, Woman with Crossed Arms, 1901
Lord Frederic Leighton, Flaming June, 1895
George Braque, The Portuguese (The Emigrant),1911
Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1889
How does the use of color dictate the feeling of these paintings?
How does the change of color impact the mood of the painting? Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889