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COLOR THEORY
COLOR WHEEL
• THE MODERN COLOR WHEEL HAS 12 COLORS
• ROY G. BiV + TERTIARY
COLOR HARMONY
• HARMONY DEFINED: a pleasing arrangement of parts
• COLOR RELATIONSHIP: the fixed relationship between colors based on the color wheel
• COLOR SCHEMES: Complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, monochromatic, warm/cool, tetradic (rectangle), square
COMPLEMENTARY
Colors opposite each other on the color wheel
ANALOGOUSColors that are next to each other on the
color wheel
TRIADICColors that are evenly spaced
around the wheel
SPLIT-COMPLEMENTARY
A color and the two colors adjacent to it’s complement
MONOCHROMATIC
• Variation in lightness or saturation of a single color
WARM/COOL
The color wheel is divided in two – warm and cool
SQUARE: four colors spaced evenly around the color wheel
RECTANGLE (tetradic): two sets of complementary colors
GEORGE BASELITZ
ALEX PRAGER
JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
MERELLO
EDVARD MUNCH
GRANT WOOD
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