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