1. Color Wheel F11.1 Understand the use of plant materials and tools.
F11.2 Apply basic design principles to products and designs.
F11.3 Handle, prepare, and arrange cut flowers appropriately.

2. Color Wheel
A tool to use to understand the uses of color.

3. Color Wheel Primary Color – natural colors; red, yellow, & blue
Secondary Colors –
equal mixture of two primary colors;
Red & Yellow =
Orange
Yellow & Blue =
Green
Red & Blue =
Purple/Violet

4. Color Wheel Tertiary color (tur-shee-er-ee) or Intermediate color–
equal mixture of a primary and secondary color.
Example: red & orange = red-orange

5. Color Wheel
Tint –
Add white to make a color brighter, pink is a tint of red

6. Color Wheel
Shade –
add black to make a color darker, burgundy is a shade of red.

7. Color Wheel
Tone –
add gray to make a color dull; dusty rose is a tone of pink.
Color Harmonies –
combinations of color that are pleasing to the eye.

8. Color Principles Monochromatic –
one hue with its tints, shades and tones,
ex. Red, pink, mauve, burgundy.
Analogous (a⋅nal⋅o⋅gous)–
three or more hues that are next to each other on the color wheel.
Ex. Yellow – green, yellow & yellow – orange.

9. Color Principles Complementary –
two colors opposite each other on the color wheel.
Ex. Red and green.
Split-Complementary –
any color with the two colors on each side of its complement.
Ex. Yellow with blue-violet and red-violet.

10. Color Principles
Triadic – three colors that are equally spaced on the color wheel.
Ex. Yellow, red and blue.

11. Color Principles
Black and white may be thought of as colors but, in fact, they are not.
White light is the presence of all color –
Black is the absence of reflected light and therefore the absence of color.