Color Hue - “the name” of a wavelength of light…red, blue, etc. When an object reflects a certain wavelength we see the object as having that color.

Achromatic Using only black, white and greys to create art (“No color”)

Monochromatic Using ONE color, and various values of that color to create art.

Cool Colors Greens Blues Purples Using 3 colors that have a “base” hue in common is called a Analogous Color Theory. One grouping is yellow-green, green, and blue-green

Warm Colors Reds Pinks Yellows Oranges Using 3 colors that have a “base” hue in common is called a Analogous Color Theory. One grouping is yellow- orange, orange, and red-orange.

Analogous Theory

Primary Colors Colors that cannot be made. The primaries also demonstrate a Triadic color theory. Triadic grouping is made by three colors that create an equilateral triangle on the color wheel

Secondary Colors Colors that are created by mixing top neighboring primary colors together. The secondary colors also create a Triadic color grouping.

Triadic Color Groupings

Intermediate Also known as Tertiary colors Created by mixing a secondary with a neighboring primary Usually have hyphenated names, i.e. yellow-orange

Complementary Colors Colors that appear directly across from one another on the color wheel. Orange and Blue. Green and Red. Yellow and Violet. Even Intermediate have complement colors. Such as Red-orange and Blue-green.

Split Complement Created by locating the complement of the desired color and then including the colors on either side of the complement. Always a series of 3 colors.