COLOR THEORY REVIEW Color Values and Color Schemes RECAP OF COLOR

• Primary Colors: Red, Yellow, Blue

• Secondary Colors: Orange, Violet, Green

• Tertiary Colors: Red-Violet, Red-Orange, Blue-Green, Yellow- Green, Blue-Violet, Yellow-Orange

• TINT- A Color Plus White • SHADE- A Color Plus Black • TONE-A Color Plus Gray COLOR VALUES • Value is the darkness or lightness of a color. When dealing with pure color (hue), value can be affected by adding white or black to a color. • Adding white to a color produces a tint...

• Adding black to a color produces a shade... •Color Schemes

Color schemes are ways colors are put together in an intelligent way MONOCHROMATIC • literally means one (mono) color. So a monochromatic color scheme is made up of one color and it’s shades and tints and tones. COMPLEMENTARY

• colors found directly across from each other on the color wheel. *(if you mix 2 complementary colors you get brown)* • Complementary color scheme provide strong contrast. Ex: Blue and Orange, Red and Green, Yellow and Violet. • Or BG/RO ANALOGOUS COLORS- • are colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. • When used as a color scheme, analogous colors can be dramatic. Ex. Blue, blue-green, green, and yellow-green; red, red-Violet, Violet, blue- Violet SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY- • color schemes are made up of a color and it’s complement’s closest analogous colors. • Ex. Yellow, red-VIOLET, blue-VIOLET • Red-orange, Blue, green (below) WARM/ COOL COLORS

• Warm Colors remind you of Fire/heat- RV, R, RO, O, YO, Y, YG

• Cool Colors remind you of water/cold- G, BG,B, BV,V, RV TRIADIC Any of 3 Colors located Equidistant from each other on the color wheel

EX: Primary Colors R,Y,B or

BG, RV, YO