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Color Notes |
| 6th grade notes are 1-4, 11 and 12. 7th grade notes are the whole page |
| 1. Color is the refraction or reflection of light.
2. Primary Colors: Red, Blue and Yellow, by mixing these you get all the other colors. 3. Secondary Colors: Green, Orange, and Violet. Made by mixing two primaries together. 4. Intermediate or Tertiary: The third group of colors, or the colors that come in-between a primary and a secondary on the color wheel. Yellow-green, Yellow-orange, Blue-green, Blue-Violet, Red-orange, Red-violet. 5. Hue: Another name for color. 6. Value: Light and dark, referred to as tone too. 7. Intensity: How bright or dull a color is. Deals with purity of the color. Color Schemes: 8. Monochromatic: One color with tints and shades. Tint is when you add white, Shade is when you add black. 9. Complements: Colors that are opposite on the color wheel. 3 examples would be red and green, blue and orange, and yellow and violet. When you add complements into each other they dull the intensity. 10. Analogous: Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel and contain a common hue. Example would be, Red, Red-orange, Orange, Yellow-orange, and Yellow. It consists of 3 to 5 colors. 11. Warm colors: Yellow, Red and Orange 12. Cool colors: Blue, Green and Violet 13. Neutrals: Gray, black and white 14. Arbitrary colors: Colors chosen reflect a feeling or mood, not realistic. |