The Color Wheel and Color schemes

Additive color

Subtractive colors

Hue: ColorThe words hue and color can be used interchangeably as the name for a given color.Red is a hue, Red-Orange is a hue.

Light green is not a hue. Brownish-pink is not a hue.

Primary And Secondary Colors

•RED/ GreenBLUE/ OrangeYellow/ Violet

Tertiary colors:

Primary+secondary colors

• Yellow-Green• Yellow-Orange•Red-Orange•Red-Violet•Blue-Violet•Blue-Green

Pierre Bonnard: Tertiary colors: yellow orange, blue violet,

Monochromatic color scheme

Uses only one color and a variety of tints (white added) and shades (black or grey added) of that color

Analogous color schemes

Uses colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. This creates a very unified design, but with more visual interest than in a monochromatic scheme.

Red-orange, Orange, Yellow-orange

Wolf Kahn: yellow orange, yellow, Red-orange (blue accents)

Blue violet, violet, blue

Yellow-orange, orange, red orange, red

Complementary color schemeColors that are opposite one another on the color wheel are complements.

Complementary Color schemes utilize one complementary dyad (pair).

Red-----GreenBlue-----orangeYellow----purple

These are very eye-catching designs, but have the potential to be very jarring. Your choice of saturation will be very important.

Andy Warhol

Split-complementary color scheme

A color combined with the two colors surrounding it’s complement. slightly more sophisticated and less aggressive than a complementary scheme.

Purple—Yellow-orange—Yellow-green

Blue, red-orange, and yellow-orange

Green, red-violet, red-orange

Kehinde Wiley

Red-Orange; Blue; Green

Red, Blue-green, Yellow-green

Quadratic • Four colors, equally spaced in the color-wheel

Willem DeKooning

Blue-violet---Yellow-OrangeGreen---Red

Triadic Color Scheme

• 3 equally spaced colors

Triadic Color Scheme: Red-Yellow-Blue

Fake Mondrian: Red, Yellow, Blue

Bridget RileyBlue-green, Blue-Violet, Yellow-Orange

Purple, Orange, Green

Name this scheme!!

Name this color scheme!!!

Color EvocationsColor in composition

Malevich, Suprematist Painting

Matisse, Icarus

Vernon Fisher, Observations Observed

Bacon, Crucifixion

Emil Nolde, Crucifixion

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Matisse

Warm colors: Reds, oranges, yellows, Some violets

Egon Schiele,Portrait of Paris von Gutersloh

Warm Colors: what effect do warm colors have on a composition?

Cool

Helen Frankenthaler

Cool colors: Blues, greens, some violets

•TINTS: Color + White

•Shades: Color + Black

Mary Cassatt, A kiss for baby Anne, ---How does the use of tints relate to the content of the piece?

Mark Rothko

How does the use of SHADES affect our read of this piece? What is the emotional content?

Ryan McGinness

Full Saturation, aka, HIGH KEY colors

Gauguin, Nightmare

Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas

Sandy Skoglund, Radioactive Cats

Diebenkorn, Interior with View of Sea

Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World

Andrew Wyeth, Teel’s Island

Van Gogh, Night Cafe

What do these colors suggest?

What do these colors evoke?

Candy Colored Evocations?

Chaz Maviyane-Davis

Chaz Maviyane-Davis

Chaz

The Guerilla Girls

Edward Munch, The Scream

Picasso, the Old Guitarist