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This document discusses color properties and color theory. It explains that color has three main properties: hue (the name of the color), intensity (brightness/purity), and value (lightness/darkness). It describes primary colors, secondary colors created by mixing primaries, and tertiary colors in between. It also covers color schemes like monochromatic, analogous, complementary, and triadic. Warm colors like red and yellow are named, as are cool colors like blue and green.
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- 2. Color Has three mainproperties. 1) Hue, which is the name of a color. For example, red, yellow, blue are hues. 2) Intensity, which refers to the brightness and purity of a color. For example, bright red or dull red. 3) Value, which refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
- 3. Hue • Hue refersto the name of a color. For example red, blue, and purple are hues.
- 4. Intensity • Intensity refersto the brightness or dullness of a color. An example is bright red (or dull red). • When a hue is strong and bright, it is said to be high in intensity. When a color is faint, dull and gray, it is said to be low in intensity. Intensities of Green
- 5. Value • Value isthe lightness or darkness of a color. • You can obtain different values by adding black or white to a color. • A light color is called a tint of the original hue. For example, pink is a tint of red. • To make a color darker in value, black is added. A dark color is called a shade of the original hue. Maroon is a shade of red. Here is an example of a value scale that has values ranging from the darkest dark, to the whitest white.
- 6. The lightness ordarkness of a color is called its value. • Tints are light values that are made by mixing a color with white. For example, pink is a tint of red (red+white), and gray is a tint of black (black+white). • Shades are dark values that are made by mixing a color with black. Maroon is a shade of red, and navy is a shade of blue.
- 7. The Color Wheel PrimaryColors Secondary Colors Tertiary Colors
- 8. Primary Colors • Theprimary colors are red, blue, and yellow. • Primary colors cannot be made from other colors.
- 9. Secondary Colors • Thesecondary colors are orange, green, and purple. • Secondary colors are made from mixing the primary colors.
- 10. • Mixing primaryand secondary colors creates tertiary colors. Tertiary colors include: 1) Red-Violet 2) Blue-Violet 3) Blue-Green 4) Yellow Green 5) Red-Orange 6) Yellow-Orange • On the color wheel, the tertiary colors are located between the primary and secondary colors they are made from. Tertiary Colors
- 11. Warm Colors • Thewarm colors are red, orange, yellow, and anything in between. • They are called warm because they remind you of the sun or fire. • Warm colors seem to come out at you in space.
- 12. Cool Colors • TheCool colors are blue, green, purple and anything in between. • They are called cool because they remind you of the earth or a cool creek. • Cool colors seem to recede from you in space. NEXT
- 13. Neutrals • Neutrals don'tusually show up on the color wheel. Neutrals include black, white, gray, and sometimes brown and beige. They are sometimes called “earth tones.” • There are a few different ways to make neutrals. You can blend black and white to make gray. You can create brown in two ways—by blending two complementary colors together or by blending all three primary colors together. Snow in New York by Robert Henri Robert Henri uses many different neutrals. You can see a few glimpses of red paint, but the overall effect is of natural browns, whites and grays--like those you might see in rocks, sand, dirt, or clay.
- 14. Color Schemes • MonochromaticColor Scheme • Analogous Color Scheme • Complementary Color Scheme • Split-Complementary Color Scheme • Double Split-Complement Color Scheme • Triadic Color Scheme
- 15. Monochromatic Colors • Amonochromatic scheme consists of different values (tints and shades) of a single color. An example of a monochrome color scheme could include any color mixed with white or black. The example above is a green monochromatic color scheme. • A shade of green is made by mixing green and black. • A tint of green is made by mixing green and white.
- 17. Analogous Colors • Thesecolors are located next to each other on the wheel, such as: • Blue, Blue-green, Green • Red, Red-Orange, and Orange • Analogous colors are sometimes called harmonious colors.
- 19. Complementary Colors • Complementary colorsare the colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel • Blue & Orange • Red & Green • Purple & Yellow
- 21. Triadic Color Scheme •A triadic color scheme uses colors at the points of an equilateral triangle (three colors spaced equally on the color wheel). • These are sometimes called balanced colors. • An example of a triadic color scheme could be red, blue, and yellow; green, orange, and purple, etc.