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The Color Wheel
A Brief Review on Color Theory
Color
The visual response to the wavelengths of sunlight identified
as red, green, blue and so on; having the physical properties of
hue, intensity, and value.
PRIMARY COLORS
Primary colors are colors from which all other colors are made.
RED BLUE YELLOW
SECONDARY COLORS
Secondary colors that are created from equal amounts of a pair of primary colors
ORANGE GREEN VIOLET
Tertiary colors are colors made from equal amounts of a pair of primary and secondary colors.
Tertiary Colors
red-violet
blue-violet
blue-green
yellow-green
yellow-orange
red-orange
Three consecutive colors on the color wheel
Analogous colorsAnalogous colors are any three colors which are
side by side on a 12 part color wheel, such as yellow-green, yellow, and yellow-orange.
Complementary colors are any two colors which are directly opposite each other in the color wheel.
Examples are red and green, red-purple and yellow-green. In the illustration, there are several
variations of yellow-green in the leaves and several variations of red-purple in the orchid.
Complementary Colors
Shades are dark values of a color. One usually makes shades by mixing a color with different amounts of
black.
TINT
SHADE
Tints are light values of a color. One
usually makes tints by mixing a color
with different amounts of white.
A Monochromatic color scheme is one color.
Monochromatic
The primary color is integrated with neutral colors such as black, white, or gray.
The split complementary scheme is a variation of the standard complementary scheme. It uses a color and the two colors adjacent to its complementary color.
SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY
The triadic color scheme uses three colors equally spaced
around the color wheel.
Triadic Color Scheme
Let’s review what we just learned on our handhelds.
1. Open up the color review for students PowerPoint in Docs-To-Go
2. Open it and answer the questions using the list view.
3. We will review it together
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