Color Wheel

Color Wheel• Primary

• Secondary

• Tertiary

• Value - brightness/lightness• Intensity - color strength (complements*)• Tints - color + white• Shades - color + black• Tones - color + white and black• Hue - pure color (on color wheel)

Saturation - vivid/intensity of a color

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Which color has the highest saturation?

Color Schemes - choice of colors in a design

• Monochromatic - different values of one color

• Complementary - opposite each other on color wheel

• Analogous - next to each other on color wheel

• Split-Complementary - color + 2 colors adjacent to its

complement

• Triadic - 3 colors evenly spaced on color wheel

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Picasso, Woman with Crossed Arms, 1901

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Lord Frederic Leighton, Flaming June, 1895

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George Braque, The Portuguese (The Emigrant),1911

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Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1889

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How does the use of

color dictate the feeling of

these paintings?

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How does the change of color

impact the mood of the painting?

Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889