1. COLORTHEORYCOLORTHEORY A Lecture by: Dennis L. Law, ASLA Professor of Landscape Architecture Kansas State University

2. COLORTHEORYCOLORTHEORY Definitions Color Wheel Mixing Colors Seeing Color Color Harmony

3. DEFINITIONS Hue Color Wheel Value Chroma Intensity

4. Sequence Primary Colors Secondary Colors Tertiary Colors Tints Tones Shades COLOR WHEEL

5. Yellow Green Blue Violet Red Orange SequenceSequence

6. Yellow Blue Red Primary Colors

7. Orange Green Violet Secondary Colors

8. Made by mixing secondary colors Tertiary Colors Orange/Green Orange/Violet Green/Violet

9. Made by mixing colors with WHITE Tinted Colors REDPINKWHITE

10. Made by mixing colors with BLACK Toned Colors REDMAGENTA BLACK

11. Made by mixing colors with GRAY Shaded Colors REDROSEGRAY

12. Using primary Colors Using Secondary Colors Making Tertiary Colors Making Grays Making Browns MIXING COLOR

13. Staring at a color, what do you see when you quit looking? How do you determine what colors to use when mixing? What technique do you use to apply color? SEEING COLOR

14. Triads Adjacent Complementary Split Complementary Double Split Complementary COLOR HARMONY

15. Triads - any three colors equidistant on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Example one: Use of Primary Colors

16. Triads - any three colors equidistant on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Example two: Use of Secondary Colors

17. Triads - any three colors equidistant on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Example three: Use of Tertiary Colors

18. Adjacent - any two colors next to one another on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Red Orange Red Example one: Use of Warm Colors

19. Adjacent - any two colors next to one another on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Blue Green Blue Example two: Use of Cool Colors

20. Complimentary - any two colors opposite one another on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Red Violet Yellow Green

21. Split - Complimentary - any color on the color wheel and the colors either side of its compliment. COLOR HARMONY

22. Double Split - Complimentary - any color on the color wheel and the two colors either side of its compliment. COLOR HARMONY