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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