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PRIMARY COLORS

These colors can not be mixed from any other color!

SECONDARY COLORS

• Mixing two primary colors creates the secondary colors.

• Yellow + Red = Orange

• Yellow + Blue = Green

• Blue + Red = Violet

TERTIARY COLORS

• These colors are made by mixing a primary color with it’s adjacent secondary color.

• When naming these colors, the Primary always comes first.

TERTIARY COLORS

• Yellow + Orange = Yellow-Orange

• Yellow + Green = Yellow-Green

• Red + Orange = Red-Orange

TERTIARY COLORS

• Red + Violet = Red-Violet

• Blue + Green = Blue-Green

• Blue + Violet = Blue-Violet

COMPLIMENTARY COLORS

• These are colors opposite each other on the color wheel.

• RED AND GREEN• BLUE AND ORANGE• YELLOW AND VIOLET

ANALAGOUS COLORS

• These are 3-4 colors next to each other on the color wheel that share a common color.

• RED, RED-VIOLET, VIOLET, BLUE-VIOLET

• BLUE, BLUE-GREEN, GREEN, YELLOW-GREEN

• YELLOW, YELLOW-GREEN, GREEN, BLUE-GREEN

ANALAGOUS COLORS

MONOCHROMATIC

• A THEME OF ONE COLOR USING TINTS AND SHADES.

Tint• TINT – A HUE THAT HAS WHITE

ADDED.

• Color + White = light color

+ =

Shade• SHADE IS A HUE THAT HAS BLACK

ADDED

• COLOR + BLACK = DARK COLOR

+ =

ACHROMATIC

BLACK, WHITE AND GREYS ALL WITHOUT

COLOR.

NEUTRAL COLORS

• ALL TINTS AND SHADES OF EARTH TONES. BROWNS, TANS, GREYS ETC.

• THESE CAN BE MIXED BY COMBINING THE THREE PRIMARY COLORS

VALUE & INTENSITY

• VALUE = THE LIGHTNESS OR DARKNESS OF A COLOR.

• INTENSITY = THE PURITY OR STRENGTH OF THE COLOR.

COOL COLORS

• REMIND YOU OF COOL THINGS.

• BLUES, GREENS AND VIOLETS

WARM COLORS

• REMIND YOU OF WARM THINGS

• REDS, ORANGES AND YELLOWS

• PIGMENT – GROUND UP MINERALS THAT CREATE THE EFFECT OF COLOR.

• MEDIUM – A SUBSTANCE ADDED TO PIGMENT TO FACILITATE APPLICATION. (WATER, OIL, ACRYLIC, ETC.)

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• THIS IS THE CHARACTER ON THE SLIDES CREATED BY ARTIST MARK ALLEN.

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