COLORTHEORYCOLORTHEORY A Lecture by: Dennis L. Law, ASLA Professor of Landscape Architecture Kansas State University.

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COLORTHEORYCOLORTHEORY A Lecture by: Dennis L. Law, ASLA Professor of Landscape Architecture Kansas State University

COLORTHEORYCOLORTHEORY Definitions Color Wheel Mixing Colors Seeing Color Color Harmony

DEFINITIONS Hue Color Wheel Value Chroma Intensity

Sequence Primary Colors Secondary Colors Tertiary Colors Tints Tones Shades COLOR WHEEL

Yellow Green Blue Violet Red Orange SequenceSequence

Yellow Blue Red Primary Colors

Orange Green Violet Secondary Colors

Made by mixing secondary colors Tertiary Colors Orange/Green Orange/Violet Green/Violet

Made by mixing colors with WHITE Tinted Colors REDPINKWHITE

Made by mixing colors with BLACK Toned Colors REDMAGENTA BLACK

Made by mixing colors with GRAY Shaded Colors REDROSEGRAY

Using primary Colors Using Secondary Colors Making Tertiary Colors Making Grays Making Browns MIXING COLOR

Staring at a color, what do you see when you quit looking? How do you determine what colors to use when mixing? What technique do you use to apply color? SEEING COLOR

Triads Adjacent Complementary Split Complementary Double Split Complementary COLOR HARMONY

Triads - any three colors equidistant on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Example one: Use of Primary Colors

Triads - any three colors equidistant on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Example two: Use of Secondary Colors

Triads - any three colors equidistant on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Example three: Use of Tertiary Colors

Adjacent - any two colors next to one another on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Red Orange Red Example one: Use of Warm Colors

Adjacent - any two colors next to one another on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Blue Green Blue Example two: Use of Cool Colors

Complimentary - any two colors opposite one another on the color wheel. COLOR HARMONY Red Violet Yellow Green

Split - Complimentary - any color on the color wheel and the colors either side of its compliment. COLOR HARMONY

Double Split - Complimentary - any color on the color wheel and the two colors either side of its compliment. COLOR HARMONY