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Title: Color Theory


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Color Theory
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What is
COLOR?
  • The various visual phenomena that are the results
    of the reflection or absorption of light by a
    surface.
  • Color has three properties Hue, Value, and
    Intensity.

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HUE
  • Property of color that refers to the intrinsic
    color of a color. The name of the color
  • (blue, red, yellow, green, orange, violet).

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VALUE
  • The lightness (tint) or darkness (shade) of a
    color.

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What are tints and shades?
  • Add any color to white to get a tint

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What are tints and shades?
  • Add black to any color to get a shade

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INTENSITY
  • The property of color that refers to the
    brightness or dullness of a color. It is
    influenced by how pure the color is, and is
    RELATIVE.

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Color Groups
  • Colors that have certain likenesses or
    differences.
  • PRIMARY COLORS-
  • Colors that cannot be made by mixing any other
    colors. Naturally occurring colors

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Primary Colors
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  • SECONDARY COLORS
  • Colors that are made by mixing two PRIMARY colors.

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Secondary Colors
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TERTIARY
  • Colors obtained by mixing a PRIMARY color and an
    adjacent SECONDARY color.
  • Always say the PRIMARY color FIRST.

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Tertiary Colors
  • Red-Violet Blue-Violet
  • Blue-Green Yellow-Green
  • Yellow-Orange Red-Orange

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COMPLEMENTARY
  • Pairs of colors that are opposite of each other
    on the color wheel.

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Complementary Colors
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ANALOGOUS
  • Three or four colors next to each other on the
    color wheel.
  • Yellow, Yellow-Orange, Orange,
  • Red-Orange
  • Violet, Blue-Violet, Blue, Blue-Green

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Warm Colors
  • Tend to make you think of warm things
  • The sun
  • Fire
  • What colors make you think of warm things?

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Cool Colors
  • Tend to make you think of things that are cool or
    cold
  • Water
  • Snow
  • Ice
  • Grass
  • What colors make you think of cool things?

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Neutral Colors
  • Colors that are neither warm nor cool
  • Some achieved by mixing complementary colors
    (brown or gray)
  • They are white, black, gray and brown

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Neutral Colors
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MONOCHROMATIC
  • Using tints and shades of one color.
  • Artist will use ONE color and black and white to
    create a composition.

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TRIADIC
  • Sets of three colors an equal distance from each
    other on the color wheel.
  • PRIMARIES and SECONDARIES are both examples of a
    TRIADIC COLOR SCHEME

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  • Use only PRIMARY, SECONDARY and NEUTRAL COLORS!
  • Use CARMINE for red, GRASS GREEN for green and
    DARK BLUE for blue.
  • DO NOT USE LIGHT BLUE, DARK GREEN, VERMILLION OR
    INDIAN RED

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You will be graded on color placement and media
skill/ neatness.
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