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Issac Newton In a famous experiment over three hundred years ago, Issac Newton demonstrated that color is a property of light. "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." – Isaac Newton

Color Has three dimensions 1. Hue: identifies a color as blue, yellow, red, or green, and so on, as seen in the spectrum, or the color wheel. An infinite number of hues can be created through intermixing colors. 2. Value: refers to the lightness and darkness of a color. 3. Intensity: describes the brightness and dullness of a color (sometimes called saturation).

Primary Colors Red/Yellow/Blue --Make every other color on the color wheel. --Cannot be made by mixing any colors together.

Secondary Colors Green/Orange/Violet Secondary colors are formed by mixing the primary colors. Yellow + Blue = Green Red + Blue = Violet Red + Yellow = Orange

Tertiary/Intermediate Colors Tertiary colors are formed by mixing the primary and secondary colors. Yellow-Orange Red-Orange Red-Violet Blue-Violet Blue-Green Yellow-Green

Complimentary Colors Any 2 colors that are directly opposite of each other on the color wheel

Split Complementary

Analogous Colors Yellow/green, yellow and yellow/orange Blue/Violet, Blue, Blue/Green Blue/Green, Green, Yellow/Green Red/Violet, Violet, Blue/Violet Red/Violet, Red, Red/Orange -- Any 3 colors next to each other on the color wheel. -- One of the colors predominates

COOL COLORS Blue Green Violet

WARM COLORS Red Orange Yellow

Value: The lightness and darkness of a color. Tints: Adding White to a color Shade: Adding Black to a color

Monochromatic The range of lightness and darkness of a single color.

Intensity: describes the brightness and dullness of a color (sometimes called saturation).

QUADRATIC COLOR Color scheme created by choosing colors at the corners of a rectangle inscribed on a color wheel.

Triadic Colors 3 Colors on the color wheel that are evenly spaced and form a triangle on the color wheel.

Tone: Adding Grey to a color

Color Wheel