1. * Color Theory
The art and science of color interaction and effects.

2. RGB
ADDITIVE COLOR
Color created from beams of light.

3. RGB
Red Green Blue
ADDITIVE COLOR

4. RGB
Red Green Blue
ADDITIVE COLOR
Color created from beams of light.

5. RGB
Red Green Blue
ADDITIVE COLOR
Color created from beams of light.
This system applies only to devices employing light
– computer monitors
– television sets
– theater stage lighting

6. RGB
Red Green Blue
ADDITIVE COLOR
Color created from beams of light.
This system applies only to devices employing light
– computer monitors
– television sets
– theater stage lighting

7. RGB
Red Green Blue
ADDITIVE COLOR
Color created from beams of light.
This system applies only to devices employing light
– computer monitors
– television sets
– theater stage lighting

8. RGB
Red Green Blue
ADDITIVE COLOR
Color created from beams of light.
This system applies only to devices employing light
– computer monitors
– television sets
– theater stage lighting

9. RGB
Red Green Blue
ADDITIVE COLOR
WE ADD COLORS IN ORDER TO GET WHITE
Color created from beams of light.
This system applies only to devices employing light
– computer monitors
– television sets
– theater stage lighting

10. Primary Color – ADDITIVE RGB
Light!
This is how a computer translates color to a monitor.

11. RGB
LIGHT
RED + GREEN = YELLOW
BLUE + GREEN = CYAN
RED + BLUE = MEGENTA
RED + GREEN + BLUE =WHITE

12. Primary Color – ADDITIVE RGB
Light!
This is how a computer translates color to a monitor.

13. RGB
LIGHT
RED + GREEN = YELLOW
BLUE + GREEN = CYAN
RED + BLUE = MEGENTA
RED + GREEN + BLUE =WHITE

14. RGB
LIGHT
RED + GREEN = YELLOW
BLUE + GREEN = CYAN
RED + BLUE = MEGENTA
RED + GREEN + BLUE =WHITE

15. Primary Color – ADDITIVE RGB
Light!
This is how a computer translates color to a monitor.

16. RGB
LIGHT
RED + GREEN = YELLOW
BLUE + GREEN = CYAN
RED + BLUE = MEGENTA
RED + GREEN + BLUE =WHITE

17. RGB
LIGHT
RED + GREEN = YELLOW
BLUE + GREEN = CYAN
RED + BLUE = MEGENTA
RED + GREEN + BLUE =WHITE

18. Primary Color – ADDITIVE RGB
Light!
This is how a computer translates color to a monitor.

19. RGB
LIGHT
RED + GREEN = YELLOW
BLUE + GREEN = CYAN
RED + BLUE = MAGENTA
RED + GREEN + BLUE =WHITE

20. RGB
LIGHT
RED + GREEN = YELLOW
BLUE + GREEN = CYAN
RED + BLUE = MAGENTA
RED + GREEN + BLUE = WHITE

21. Primary Color – ADDITIVE RGB
Light!
This is how a computer translates color to a monitor.

22. RGB
LIGHT
RED + GREEN = YELLOW
BLUE + GREEN = CYAN
RED + BLUE = MAGENTA
RED + GREEN + BLUE = WHITE

23. RGB
LIGHT
FINAL QUESTION:

24. RGB
LIGHT
FINAL QUESTION:
HOW DO YOU GET BLACK?

25. RGB
LIGHT
FINAL QUESTION:
HOW DO YOU GET BLACK?
In LIGHT
black is the absence of color!

26. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.

27. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.
CYAN + MAGENTA = BLUE

28. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.

29. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.
CYAN + MAGENTA = BLUE

30. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.
CYAN + MAGENTA = BLUE
MAGENTA + YELLOW = RED

31. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.

32. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.
CYAN + MAGENTA = BLUE
MAGENTA + YELLOW = RED

33. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.
CYAN + MAGENTA = BLUE
MAGENTA + YELLOW = RED
CYAN + YELLOW = GREEN

34. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.

35. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.
CYAN + MAGENTA = BLUE
MAGENTA + YELLOW = RED
CYAN + YELLOW = GREEN

36. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.
FINAL QUESTIONS:
How do we get BLACK?

37. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.
FINAL QUESTIONS:
How do we get BLACK?
BLACK IS THE PRESNENCE OF ALL COLORS
How do we get WHITE?

38. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.
FINAL QUESTIONS:
How do we get BLACK?
BLACK IS THE PRESNENCE OF ALL COLORS
How do we get WHITE?

39. CMYK
Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
Used in printing.
FINAL QUESTIONS:
How do we get BLACK?
BLACK IS THE PRESNENCE OF ALL COLORS
How do we get WHITE?
WHITE IS THE ABSENCE OF ALL COLORS

40. The CMYK Color System
If you look at a printed page with a magnifying
glass you might see something like the
illustration. Our eye mixes the colors

41. ANDY WARHOL

43. * PRIMARY COLOR
Colors that all other colors can be made from.
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
We subtract colors from black to get white
This is what we do in the art room on a regular
basis!

44. * PRIMARY COLOR
Colors that all other colors can be made from.
RYB
Red Yellow Blue
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
We subtract colors from black to get white
This is what we do in the art room on a regular
basis!

45. Primary Color – SUBTRACTIVE RYB
Paint, crayons, colored pencils, pastels etc.
This is how we mix colors with pigments and dyes.

46. * SECONDARY COLOR
Colors made by mixing two primaries.
VGO
Violet Green Orange
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
We subtract colors from black to get white
This is what we do in the art room on a regular
basis!

47. Secondary color- Hues mixed from
adjacent primaries; violet, green and orange

48. * Tertiary color- A hue that is mixed from a
primary color and the adjacent secondary color.

49. Color Wheel

50. How many colors are there?
Older computer systems may be limited to 216
A high quality printer is only capable of producing thousands
A monitor can display millions
How many colors could you make in paint?

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2. Ticket #13: What are the
Tertiary colors?
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What is Color Theory?

53. Pablo Picasso Joseph Albers

54. Pablo Picasso

55. Can any other color set the same mood
as the blue monochromatic version?

56. Can any other color set the same mood
as the blue monochromatic version?

57. Can any other color set the same mood
as the blue monochromatic version?

58. Can any other color set the same mood
as the blue monochromatic version?

59. Warm Cool
Temperature – Refers to the heat that a color
generates, both physically and psychologically.

60. Color Wheel
* Hue – Is the name of a specific color.
Value – The lightness or darkness of a hue.
Intensity – The brightness or dullness of a color.

61. Color Wheel
* Hue – Is the name of a specific color.
The lightness or darkness of a hue.

62. Color Wheel
* Hue – Is the name of a specific color.
* Value – The lightness or darkness of a hue.

63. Color Wheel
* Hue – Is the name of a specific color.
* Value – The lightness or darkness of a hue.

64. A: COLOR MIXING & EXPERIMENTATION
Value
1. We add black and white to a color to get tints
and shades.
Tone and Intensity
1. We add compliments to each other to get muddy
colors
2. e can mix more and less of other colors to get
millions of color variations.

65. A: COLOR MIXING & EXPERIMENTATION
Value
1. We add black and white to a color to get tints
and shades.
Tone and Intensity
1. We add compliments to each other to get muddy
colors
2. e can mix more and less of other colors to get
millions of color variations.

66. There are two ways to lower the value
of a color.
Value - The relative lightness or
darkness of a color. Which creates…

67. * Tint – A hue that has been mixed with white.
* Shade – A hue that has been mixed with

68. Color Wheel
* Hue – Is the name of a specific color.
* Value – The lightness or darkness of a hue.
* Intensity – The brightness or dullness of a color.

69. Color Wheel
* Hue – Is the name of a specific color.
* Value – The lightness or darkness of a hue.
* Intensity – The brightness or dullness of a color.

70. A: COLOR MIXING & EXPERIMENTATION
Value
1. We add black and white to a color to get tints
and shades.
Tone and Intensity
1. We add compliments to each other to get muddy
colors
2. e can mix more and less of other colors to get
millions of color variations.

71. From color mixing experimentation.
Value
1. We add black and white to a color to get tints
and shades.
Tone and Intensity
1. We add compliments to each other to get muddy
colors
2. We can mix more and less of other colors to get
millions of color variations.

72. Mixing a color with it’s compliment to
creates different tones.

73. 1. From color mixing experimentation.
Value
1. We add black and white to a color to get tints
and shades.
Tone and Intensity
1. We add compliments to each other to get muddy
colors
2. We can mix more and less of other colors to get
millions of color variations.

74. Warm
GET OUT your color
theory packet please!
– Here are the warm and
cool colors again
Cool – Write them in the outer
circle of your warm/cool
page if you have not
completed this page yet.

75. * Monochromatic – Color scheme based on
variations of a single hue.

77. * Analogous – A color scheme based on hues that
are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.

78. Mark Ryden

79. * Complimentary – Hues that oppose one another
on the color wheel. When paired in a composition,
complimentary colors create contrast; when mixed,
complimentary colors produce a wide range of browns.

80. Marshall Arisman Maxfield Parrish

81. * Triadic harmony – A color scheme based on
three colors which are equidistant on a color wheel.

82. Piet Mondrian

83. ON A TICKET:
Based on the colors below what do you think
the definition of an ANALOGOUS color
scheme is?
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84. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

85. Early – Mid 1900’s

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