Color and Complementary Contrast

Primaries:

red, yellow and blue

Secondaries:

green, orange and violet

Intermediaries:

yellow-orange, red-violet and blue-green

(The relationship between color and value)

Complementary

Contrast:

Colors that are located opposite one another on the color wheel.

Mixing two complements together cancels out each of the two color’s intensity:

Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch, 1880’s

(student work)

Ok: now for the demo…