2. What is color?  Different wavelengths of reflected light!

3. Name the colors of the rainbow! ROYGBIVROYGBIV

4. How do we organize these colors? On a COLOR WHEEL

5. Primary Colors  3 colors that you cannot make by mixing another color Red Yellow Blue

6. Secondary Colors  Primary + Primary = Secondary  Colors made by mixing one primary color with another Red + blue = purple Red + yellow = orange Blue + yellow = green

7. Tertiary Colors  Primary + Secondary = Tertiary  Mixing one primary color with a secondary color that is next to it on the color wheel  They are named by the colors which are used to mix them… Red-violet, red-orange Yellow-green, yellow-orange Blue-green, blue-violet  Primary color – Secondary Color

9. COLOR Schemes

10. Warm Colors  Warm colors are: Red, yellow, orange  They make you think of… Warmth, fire, heat, etc  Warm colors “pop” or seem to come towards you

11. Cool Colors  Cool Colors are: Blue, green, purple  You think of: Water, ice, snow  Cool colors seem to recede or move to the back of an artwork

12. Monochromatic  Monochromatic = the use of only one color + black and white in an artwork  Example: Using all different light greens and dark greens in a picture…

13. Achromatic  Achromatic = using only black and white to create artwork, also called “greyscale”

14. Complimentary Colors  Colors that are directly across the color wheel from each other are “complimentary”  They look bold and bright next to each other

15. Triadic Colors  3 colors that are equidistant on the color wheel  Fancy way of saying that they make a triangle on the color wheel

16. Analogous Colors  Colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel