1. Color Theory Day!

2. *Primary – First or highest rank of importance: Chief: Principal
Primary Colors
*Primary – First or highest rank of importance: Chief: Principal
Primary Colors- a color that in a mixture makes all other colors. (red, yellow or blue)

3. not primary or original
Secondary Colors
*Secondary- Derived or derivative:
not primary or original
Secondary Colors- a color produced by mixing two primary colors. (orange, green or violet)

4. Tertiary colors
*Tertiary- of the third order, rank, stage, formation, etc.; third
Tertiary colors- When a primary color is combined with a secondary color the result is a tertiary. (Red-orange, yellow-green…)

6. Complimentary Colors Colors opposite each other on the color wheel

7. Monochromatic Colors Tints and shades of a single hue

8. Analogous Color Schemes Sit next to each other on the color wheel.

9. Local Color
Colors that are actually present in the object you are drawing. The natural color of an object unmodified by adding any distortion

10. Neutrals….
Neutral colors include black, white, gray, and sometimes brown and beige. They are sometimes called “earth tones.”
Grays, Browns, tans,…

11. Tint
Tone
Shade

12. Color Theory Examples

13.                            
Fernand Léger - L'escalier (1913)

14. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–1886, at The Art Institute of Chicago

15. Regina Valluzi. Coil to Globule. 16 x 12 inches, oil and alkyd on linen

16. Pablo Picasso, “The Old Guitarist”

17. Vincent van Gogh Self portrait with bandaged ear

18. Vincent van Gogh ( ), Sunflowers or Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (1888), National Gallery (London)