Art Element:
Color
These are:
Primary colors
cannot be made
by mixing other
colors.
Primary
colors
Primary colors are mixed to make all of the
other colors.
What
happens
when I
mix…
Secondary Colors
Colors made by mixing two of the primary colors.
Yellowgreen
Bluegreen
Tertiary Colors
(the six labeled colors)
Yelloworange
Are colors that are
made by mixing a
primary color and a
secondary color.
Redorange
Redpurple
Bluepurple
Complementary Colorsare found across from one another on the color wheel and share NO
common color.
Red
+
Green
Yellow
+
Purple
Orange
+
Blue
Complementary
Colors make
one another
seem
BRIGHTER
What pair of complementary colors did van Gogh use in his 1888
painting, The Night Café?
Red and green
Analogous colors are found directly beside
one another on the color wheel and they share
a common color.
Blue-purple, blue, and bluegreen are three colors that are
analogous to one another.
They all have blue in common.
Orange
Yellow-orange
Yellow
What analogous colors does van Gogh use in his painting, Sunflowers?
A
Monochromatic
color scheme is:
“Mono” means one and “chroma” means color. A monochromatic
color scheme is different values of a single color.
Hue= the pure color
Tint= the color plus white to make a lighter value of that color
Shade= the color plus black to make a darker value of that color
Tone= the color plus gray
Monochromatic painting in green
Analogous color scheme
Monochromatic
color scheme
Primary colors