COLOR The Color Wheel & Properties of Color The Color Wheel • Primary Colors: – colors from which all others are made – no other colors can be mixed to create these colors The Color Wheel • Secondary Colors: – colors formed by mixing equal amounts of two primary colors – these colors are located on the color wheel in between the colors that formed them For example: + = The Color Wheel • Tertiary Colors: – colors formed by mixing one primary and one secondary – these colors are located on the color wheel in between the colors that formed them For example: + = The Color Wheel • Tertiary Colors: – always named with primary color first, then secondary color For example: + = Red + Violet = RED VIOLET Three Properties of Color • Hue – the purest form of a color – the name of the color itself Hue = Yellow Green Three Properties of Color • Intensity – the brightness or dullness of a color – A color is most intense in its purest form – Two ways to lower the intensity of a color • Mix the colors opposite (compliment)*** • Add a nuetral to the color (browns/black/white) Lowering the intensity of yellow-green Simultaneous Contrast The intensity of a color will appear to change depending on what other hues are around it. – Appear more intense = place next to compliment – Appear less intense = place next to a similar color Three Properties of Color • Value – the lightness or darkness of a color TINT = color mixed with white TONE = color mixed with gray SHADE = color mixed with black Other HUES of importance • Nuetrals: created by different amounts of reflected light • Earth Tones: created by mixing opposite colors