the color wheel and color schemes
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The Color Wheel and Color schemes
Additive color
Subtractive colors
Hue: ColorThe words hue and color can be used interchangeably as the name for a given color.Red is a hue, Red-Orange is a hue.
Light green is not a hue. Brownish-pink is not a hue.
Primary And Secondary Colors
•RED/ GreenBLUE/ OrangeYellow/ Violet
Tertiary colors:
Primary+secondary colors
• Yellow-Green• Yellow-Orange•Red-Orange•Red-Violet•Blue-Violet•Blue-Green
Pierre Bonnard: Tertiary colors: yellow orange, blue violet,
Monochromatic color scheme
Uses only one color and a variety of tints (white added) and shades (black or grey added) of that color
Analogous color schemes
Uses colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. This creates a very unified design, but with more visual interest than in a monochromatic scheme.
Red-orange, Orange, Yellow-orange
Wolf Kahn: yellow orange, yellow, Red-orange (blue accents)
Blue violet, violet, blue
Yellow-orange, orange, red orange, red
Complementary color schemeColors that are opposite one another on the color wheel are complements.
Complementary Color schemes utilize one complementary dyad (pair).
Red-----GreenBlue-----orangeYellow----purple
These are very eye-catching designs, but have the potential to be very jarring. Your choice of saturation will be very important.
Andy Warhol
Split-complementary color scheme
A color combined with the two colors surrounding it’s complement. slightly more sophisticated and less aggressive than a complementary scheme.
Purple—Yellow-orange—Yellow-green
Blue, red-orange, and yellow-orange
Green, red-violet, red-orange
Kehinde Wiley
Red-Orange; Blue; Green
Red, Blue-green, Yellow-green
Quadratic • Four colors, equally spaced in the color-wheel
Willem DeKooning
Blue-violet---Yellow-OrangeGreen---Red
Triadic Color Scheme
• 3 equally spaced colors
Triadic Color Scheme: Red-Yellow-Blue
Fake Mondrian: Red, Yellow, Blue
Bridget RileyBlue-green, Blue-Violet, Yellow-Orange
Purple, Orange, Green
Name this scheme!!
Name this color scheme!!!
Color EvocationsColor in composition
Malevich, Suprematist Painting
Matisse, Icarus
Vernon Fisher, Observations Observed
Bacon, Crucifixion
Emil Nolde, Crucifixion
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Matisse
Warm colors: Reds, oranges, yellows, Some violets
Egon Schiele,Portrait of Paris von Gutersloh
Warm Colors: what effect do warm colors have on a composition?
Cool
Helen Frankenthaler
Cool colors: Blues, greens, some violets
•TINTS: Color + White
•Shades: Color + Black
Mary Cassatt, A kiss for baby Anne, ---How does the use of tints relate to the content of the piece?
Mark Rothko
How does the use of SHADES affect our read of this piece? What is the emotional content?
Ryan McGinness
Full Saturation, aka, HIGH KEY colors
Gauguin, Nightmare
Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas
Sandy Skoglund, Radioactive Cats
Diebenkorn, Interior with View of Sea
Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World
Andrew Wyeth, Teel’s Island
Van Gogh, Night Cafe
What do these colors suggest?
What do these colors evoke?
Candy Colored Evocations?
Chaz Maviyane-Davis
Chaz Maviyane-Davis
Chaz
The Guerilla Girls
Edward Munch, The Scream
Picasso, the Old Guitarist
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