1. Color Systems and Color Wheels
Color Studies
Color Systems and Color Wheels

2. Mixing Colors
Over the centuries colors have been mixed according to three different systems
_________________: the process of mixing pigments together
_________________: the process of mixing colored light
_________________: based on the viewer’s reaction to colors when they are placed next to each other

3. Color Wheels
Color arrangements or structures that enable us to organize and predict such color reactions and interactions
There are _____ different color wheels
Many artists find they have to use several different wheels to produce one painting

4. The Pigment Wheel The basis for working with __________ color
Its primary colors are _____, ____________, and _________
These are colors that cannot be obtained by mixing
We mix these primary colors to get _______________ colors

6. When a primary color and an adjacent secondary are mixed, ______________ colors are the result:
Red + Orange = _______________
Orange + Yellow = _____________
Yellow + Green = ______________
Green + Blue = ________________
Blue + Violet = ________________
Violet + Red =_________________

7. Keep In Mind Mixing the three primary colors will give you ________
The secondary and tertiary hues are ________________________________
Mixing equal amounts of yellow and blue together will result in a green that is more yellow-green than green because yellow is stronger than green

8. The Process Wheel
Gives us three basic primaries - ________, _____________, and _________ - that do, upon mixing, result in purer hues
This is the standard color wheel used in printing and photography
Yellow + Cyan = ___________
Cyan + Magenta = __________
Magenta + Yellow = ___________

9. The resulting _____________ colors from the process wheel will be as follows
Yellow + Green = ______________
Green + Cyan = ________________
Cyan + Violet = ________________
Violet + Magenta = _____________
Magenta + Orange = _________
Orange + Yellow = ____________
Mixing the three primaries together gives us __________

11. The Munsell Wheel Based on _____ primary hues or principal colors
These primaries are based on ___________ perception
Munsell set up each afterimage as a compliment to his principal hues

12. Afterimage
This is the color we see after staring at a hue and then shifting our eyes to a white surface
The second hue is termed the afterimage
If we stare at a red dot, the resulting afterimage will be ____________

13. Munsell Arrangement Complimentary combinations of
yellow and _______________
red and ________________
Green and _____________
Violet and ________________
He further systematized the color wheel into a three-dimensional form he termed a _______

15. Light Wheel
Based on the ___________ color system and provides information concerning __________________ and ____________________.
Primary colors that form other hues are __________, ___________ and _____.
Secondaries are yellow, cyan and magenta.

16. Visual Wheel
Grew out of work done by ___________________________ on complementary colors
The forerunner of the concept of ___________ color theory and was used in a ____________ as well as a _______________ manner
Primary colors are ______, __________, ___________, and ___________