Color Theory
Watch this video and answer the questions below. 2. Complementary Colors Match each color with its complement color. Purple Yellow Blue Orange Red-Violet Yellow-Green Blue-Violet Yellow-Orange Red Green Red-Orange Blue-Green 3. Match the vocab word with its definition. Tint Adding white to a color. Shade Adding black to a colour. Hue A pure colour. Tone Adding gray to a colour. Monochromatic One colour Analogues 3-5 colours on a colour wheel Complimentary Creates high contrast and are across from each other on colour wheel Colour Value refers to darkness or lightness of a colour Colour is one of the seven elements of art. Colour refers to reflected light. The acronym ROYBB represents the colours in the colour spectrum. R- red, O-orange, Y-yellow,G-green, B-blue and V-violet. Red, Blue and Yellow are primary colours. The colours are called primary colours because they are used to mix all of the other colours in existence.Secondary Colours are colours that are created by mixing equal parts of the two primary colours. These colours are orange, green and violet. Tertiary or intermediate colours are created by mixing equal parts of a secondary colour with a primary colour. Tertiary colours are named according to the colours that are used to mix them, listing the primary colours first eg. blue-green. What oil painting techniques do you see in this Vincent Van Gogh painting and what colour schemes do you see? What oil painting techniques and colour schemes do you see in this Van Gogh ?