1. Color Wheel Color Schemes COLOR THEORY Let’s take a look at the and
Color Values

2. COLORS The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue.
These colors can be combined to create secondary colors…green, violet, and orange.
Red plus blue will make violet.
Yellow plus blue will make green.
Red plus yellow will make orange.

3. Making New Colors! blue violet Red blue Yellow green Red Yellow orange
mixed with will make
mixed with will make
mixed with will make
blue
violet
Red
blue
Yellow
green
Red
Yellow
orange

4. Red
Blue
Yellow
PRIMARY COLORS CANNOT BE MADE FROM OTHER COLORS

5. Violet
Green
Orange
Secondary colors can be created from primary colors.

6. POINTILLISM
George Seurat ( December 2,1859 – March 29,1891) developed a painting technique called pointillism, where dots of pure color are positioned next to each other on a canvas. From a distance, the colors appear to mix and create new colors.

7. Tertiary Colors
A tertiary color is a color made by mixing one primary color with one secondary color.

8. Warm Colors
Warm colors seem to move toward the viewer in a painting
Warm colors are red, pink, orange and yellow. This family of colors is called warm because they remind you of warm things like the sun or fire.

9. Cool colors seem to recede, or move away in a painting
Cool colors remind us of cool things like the ocean or winter sky.
They include blue, violet and green.

10. Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986)
Warm Color Scheme Cool Color Scheme

11. MONOCHROMATIC COLOR SCHEMES
consist of different values (tints and shades) of one single color.
Tint - color plus white to make the color lighter.
Shade - color plus black to make the color darker.

12. - - - Complementary Colors Red Green Blue Orange Yellow Violet
Complementary colors are colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel, such as blue and orange, red and green, violet and yellow.
Red -
Green
Blue
Orange -
Yellow -
Violet

13. Vincent van Gogh uses a complimentary color scheme in this painting titled La Berceuse (1889; Oil on canvas)

14. Analogous color schemes
use colors that are next to each other
on the color wheel.

15. "Nymphéas" Claude MONET 1916-19
An analogous color scheme is similar to the monochromatic color scheme, but offers more depth.

16. Split-complementary color scheme
A color scheme that includes a main color and the two colors on each side of its complementary (opposite) color on the color wheel.
Georgia O-Keeffe
Jack in the Pullpit No. V, 1930