COLOR WHEEL!

Color Theory

The color wheel starts out with the basic or 'primary' colors: red, yellow and blue.


By mixing only two primary colors with eachother at a time, we come up with the secondary colors: orange, green and violet, shown in between the primary colors in the wheel displayed below.


These secondary colors can then be adjusted by the addition or removal of some of their primary forefathers to create variations which we call hues. These are referred to as tertiary colors: yellow orange, red orange, red violet, blue violet, blue green and yellow green.


Three colors side by side on a twelve hue color wheel are referred to as analogous as they all share one primary color.

Any two colors directly opposite each other on a twelve hue color wheel are referred to as complimentary. They share no primary color, and therefor compliment each other.

A monochromatic gradation is the varying tints and shades of a hue, going from the addition of light (or white) to the subtraction of light (or addition of black).


When painting our color wheels and 9 tint, hue and shade blocked gradients, the biggest complication by far was having too large of a gap between neighboring blocks.