2. The
Color
Wheel
What we will learn
•Primary color “12 Step
•Secondary color Wheel”
•Tertiary color
•Cool color
•Warm color
•Analogous color
•Complementary color
•Split Complementary
color
3. Color and your
Moodpiece of paper:
•Separate into groups of about 5
•On a scrap
•Red
•Blue
•Yellow
•Orange
•Purple
•Green
•White
•Black
•Go through and decide what these colors
remind you of
•Moods, Feelings, Objects, Etc.
4. Color and your
Mood
Green: Balance, Harmony, Nature,
Acceptance
Blue: Calmness, Peace, Honesty, Emotional
depth
Violet: Imagination, Meditation, Artistic
Qualities
Red: Physical Energy, Stamina, Stability,
Passion
Orange: Stimulates Creativity, Pleasure,
Enthusiasm,
Yellow: Increases Fun, Personal Power, Logic
6. Primary
Color
Red
•Red, Yellow and
Blue are primary
colors because they
are thebases to
all other colors
Yello Blue
•When two of these
three colors are
w
mixed they create
theSecondary
Colors
7. Red + Yellow =
Orange
Yellow + Blue = Green
Blue + Red = Purple (Violet)
8. Secondar
y Color
Orang Violet •The secondary
e colors are created
by mixing two
primaries together
•Red+Yellow= Orange
•Blue+Red= Purple
•Yellow+Blue= Green
Gree
n •The Tertiary
colors are created
when a primary and
secondary color
are mixed
10. Split Complement
•A 3 color set
•A color plus the two
adjacent color to its
complement
Complement
•Two colors directly
across from each other
on the color wheel
11. * *Analogous
* * colors*
•3 colors next to
each other in the
color wheel
Warm Colors
*
Cool Colors
*
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15. Apply what you’ve
learned
•Come up front and choose a color sample
•Applying what you’ve learned today you
are to use your paints to re-create your
chosen color as close as possible
•Cut piece of illustration board
•8” x 11”
•Your copied color
•4” x 4”
•Color Sample
•1” x 1”
*ACRYLIC PAINT DRIES SLIGHTLY
DARKER*
