Colour Theory
Students need to know this information for tests, projects and class discussions.
primary colours: pure colours on the wheel (red, yellow, blue)
secondary colours: colours on the wheel that combine two primary colours in equal amounts (orange, violet, green) tertiary colours: colours on the wheel created by combining a primary and secondary colour (red-orange, blue-violet...) hue: the actual quality of the colour (ie primary colours) warm colours: colours that convey heat (i.e. red, yellow, orange)
cool colours: colours that convey a frigid feeling (i.e. blue, violet, green)
shade: adding black to darken a hue (ie bright blue to dark blue) tint: adding white to a colour to make it lighter (ie dark green to light green) tone: adding black and white to a hue (ie pastel colours) saturation: the level of vividness and intensity to a hue, obtained by either adding or subtracting gray from a hue complementary colour: opposites on the colour wheel that side by side vibrate and mixed together create the colour’s value (holidays: Christmas, Easter, Halloween) triadic colour: a colour arrangement based on an equilateral triangle (Superman DC Comics) analogous colours: three neighbours on the colour wheel that share a colour (BP Oil) monochromatic: an artwork based on one colour (Twitter) tetradic: four colours equally spaced on the colour wheel (Google) |
paint_colour_wheel.docx |
colour_wheel_with_tonal_range_worksheet.docx |