1. For the Instructor Standard Covered Floral Design
F 11.2 Apply basic design principles to products and designs.
- This slide shows cover the basic principles of the color wheel, one of the aspects of floral design.
- Following their introduction to color, we will have a color mixing activity to asses students understanding of the color wheel.

2. The color wheel and floral design.
Jordan Albiani
AGED 410
What Color is Your Aura?
The color wheel and floral design.

3. Learning Objectives
- Understanding the purpose of the color wheel and its application to floral design.
- Understanding the three color breakdowns of the color wheel.
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
- Understand and describe the differences between warm and cool colors.
- Identify the six main color schemes that can be developed from the color wheel.
Monochromatic, Anologus, Complimentary, Split-Complimentary, Triadic, Tetradic

4. What is the Color Wheel?
A color circle or wheel that logically explains hue.
Used in design to create color patterns that are pleasing to look at.

5. How is it used in design
When the color wheel is broken down, we discover schemes. Each scheme is used to identify harmonious combinations. Harmony: Pleasing arrangement of parts. A harmonious design creates a pleasant visual effect.

6. Color Wheel Breakdown Color Categories Primary Colors
“Pure Colors” They are not formed by mixing others
Red, Yellow, Blue

7. Color Wheel Breakdown Secondary Colors
Those formed by mixing two or more primary colors
Orange, Green, Violet

8. Color Wheel Breakdown Tertiary Colors
Those produced by mixing two or more secondary colors
Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow- Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, and Red- Violet

9. Temperature Breakdown
Warm
Cool
Vivid and Energetic
Calm and Soothing

10. Monochromatic Uses variations in lightness of the same color.
In design, produces a glamorous, soothing look.
Monochromatic

11. Analogus Uses colors that are close to each other on the color wheel.
The main difference between Analogous and monochromatic is the difference between hues of the same color and different colors.
Uses colors that are close to each other on the color wheel.
Creates color harmony.

12. Complimentary
Made up of colors opposite each other on the color wheel.

13. Split complimentary
Similar to complimentary EXCEPT it uses one color plus the two colors on either side of it’s compliment

14. triadic
Tri – Three:
The triadic theme uses three colors adjacent each other on the color wheel.

15. tetradic
Four colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel.