Color Theory
OLCHS
ART 1
Mr. Brodeur
Vocabulary
Primary colors: colors from which all other colors
are made: red, blue, and yellow
Secondary colors: colors that are created from
equal amounts of a pair of primary colors: green,
orange, violet
Tertiary colors: colors made from equal amounts
of a pair of primary and secondary colors: redviolet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green,
yellow-orange, red-orange
Analogous colors: three consecutive colors on
the color wheel
Complementary colors: the colors opposite on
the color wheel: red & green, blue & orange,
yellow & violet
Tint: a color plus white
Shade: a color plus black
Monochromatic: one color
Neutral: created by mixing equal amounts of
two complementary colors (usually a graybrown)
Primary and Secondary
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Color Wheel
Colors are also divided into cool and warm categories. The
cool colors are green, blue and violet. Warm colors are red,
orange and yellow.
A tint of a color is
made by adding
white.
A shade is made
by adding black.
Complementary Colors
If two hues are opposite each other on the color wheel they
are considered to be complementary colors. When used
together in a design they make each other seem brighter and
more intense. (example: red and green)
Complementary Color Painting
Analogous Colors- colors next to each
other on the color wheel
es. Yellow, yellow-orange, orange, redorange, red
Analogous Color
Painting
Paul Cezanne. Still Life with Apples and Peaches. 1905; oil on
canvas 32 x 39 5/8 in.
Hans Hofmann. The Golden Wall. 1961; oil on canvas.
Helen Frankenthaler
Bay Side (1967)
Acrylic on canvas
Claude Monet
Impression: Sunrise (1872)
Oil on canvas.
Edvard Munch
The Scream
(1893)
Casein on
paper.
Pablo Picasso
The Old Guitarist (1903)
Oil on canvas