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Color Theory
What do you know about color theory?
• Knowledge of color theory increases our understanding and appreciation of the different ways that artists use color
• How does color affect our lives?– What are things that are color coded?
Three main components
• Hue
• Value
• Intensity
Color is…What the eye sees when light is reflected off of
an object
Color Spectrum: arrangement of color in natural order: ROY G BIV
Hue=Color (Green, Blue, Red)
• Hues have a circular order which we know as a color wheel.
• Color wheel is a device to help explain relationships between colors
Make for your notes.
Primary colors
Primary Colors
Why are primary colors so unique?
Why are Primary Colors so Unique?
• You can’t mix any other colors to create them.
• They are the first…hence… “Primary”.
Piet Mondrian
“Victory Boogie Woogie”
Boris H. Davis
“Spiderman”
Roy Lichtenstein
Secondary colors
Secondary Colors
Remember this math problem…
1 + 1 = 2Primary (1) + Primary (1) = Secondary (2)
Secondary Colors
These are colors you make when two primary colors are mixed together.
Images of Secondary Color Paintings
Layne Cook
“Simply a Purple Vase” “Formally Yours”
VanGogh
Tertiary Colors 1 Primary + 2 Secondary------------------- 3 Tertiary
next to each other on the color wheel.
+ =
+ =
+ =
+ =
+ =
+ =P = Primary
S = Secondary
T = Tertiary
P
P
P
P
P
S
S
S P
S
S
S
T
T
T
T
T
T
Must be next to each other on the color wheel.
Blue-green
Blue-violet
Yellow-green
Red-violet
Red-orange
Yellow-orange
Claude Monet“Impression Sunrise”
1873
Edward Hopper“Nighthawks”Edward Hopper
“Nighthawks”
Complementary Color Scheme
Colors that are opposite on the color wheel.
Complementary colors make each other
vibrate.
Vincent Van Gogh“The Sower”
Complementary Colors have high contrast against each
other.Kim Blair
“Three Limes on Red Plate”
Analogous Color Scheme
Colors that are side by side on the color wheel.
Shanti Marie
“Water Geisha”
Analogous colors go together - all part of the same color family (red, red-violet, violet)
Warm & Cool Color Scheme
Warm Colors vibrant, exciting, & creates feeling of excitement
Zang Wong“Heavenly Dance”
Warm Colors
Advance towards you.
Georgia O’Keefe“Red Canna”
1924
Warm Color Schemes
Ben Rotman
Exit Slip:
Test retakes are Thursday!
Cool Color Scheme
Creates feeling of calm, coolness and
sadness.
Birgitta
Cool Color SchemeObjects recede from
Viewer
Vincent Van Gogh
Cool Color Schemes
Ben Rotman
Alanna Insomnia
Warm and Cool Color
Scheme
The lightness and darkness of one color.
Monochromatic Color Scheme
Monochromatic Mono = oneChromatic = color
Leanne Wildmuth“Untitled”
Monochromatic Using tints & shades
Unknown Artist
Tints
+ =White Hue Tint
+ =
Shades
` + =Hue Black Shade
+ =
Tints
Shade Unknown Artist
