Tertiary colors = the intermediates like red-violet, yellow-orange, etc. These are made by mixing a primary with a secondary.
Cool colors = blue, green and violet. The colors of sky, water…calm, peaceful, sad, cold, etc.
Vincent van Gogh’s Green Wheat Fields
Warm colors = yellow, red and orange. The colors of fire and the sun…energy, excitement, look at me attitude, etc.
Georges Seurat’s The Circus
Complementary colors = these are direct opposites on the color wheel. Intense next to each other…but dull each other when
mixed. Green – red, yellow – violet and blue – orange.
Tint = when a color is mixed into white.Shade = when black is mixed into a color.Tone = when a color is mixed into grey.
Intensity = the overall brightness or purity of a color.Value = the lightness or darkness of a color.Monochromatic = means “one color”...contains tints, shades and tones in the same color.
COLOR THEORY
• Primary colors = red, yellow and blue. These mix to make all other colors.• Secondary colors = green, orange and violet. Made by mixing two primary colors.• Tertiary colors = intermediates made by mixing a primary with a secondary…ex. R-O.• Analogous colors = grouping of 3 colors next to each other on the wheel.• Cool colors = blue, green and violet. Colors of water and sky…calm, peaceful or cold.• Warm colors = yellow, red and orange. Colors of fire and sun…energy, excitement,
look at me attitude.• Complementary colors = these are opposite on the wheel…R-G, Y-V, and B-O. Intense
next to each other…dull each other when mixed.• Tint = when a color is mixed into white…ex. Pink.• Shade = when black is mixed into a color…ex. Maroon.• Tone = when a color is mixed into grey…ex. Blue-grey• Monochromatic = means “one color”…tints, shades and tones of one color.• Hue = the name of the color.• Intensity = the overall brightness or purity of a color.• Value = the lightness and darkness of a color.• Color = the way light reflects from a surface.• Triad = means a group of three…primary, secondary and analogous colors are groups
of three colors.