Week 1 & 2
Color Wheel
Art Assignment
Create your own version of the color wheel. You can use anything you wish to make your wheel.
-Found objects
Beads, flowers, food, toys, clothes
-Paint it
-Color it
-Make a collage
-Use chalk
-Clay or play doh
-Use blocks or legos
Try thinking outside the box and
BE CREATIVE!
Email me a picture of your work when complete.
THIS ASSIGNMENT WILL NOT BE GRADED
Basic Color Wheel
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
These are the basic colors in a color wheel. Think about a rainbow. If you know the rainbow order, you can twist those colors into a circle to get the wheel.
Primary and Secondary Colors
Primary Color: The three primary colors are RED, YELLOW and BLUE. These three colors can not be made by using other colors.
Secondary Color: These three colors are made by using two primary colors and mixing them together. The three secondary colors are ORANGE, GREEN and PURPLE.
You can figure out the order of the color wheel by placing the three primary colors in a triangle and then placing the secondary color that the two primary colors make, when mixed together, between them.
Warm and Cool Colors
The color wheel can be split into warm and cold colors.
Warm colors RED, ORANGE and YELLOW evoke warmth because they remind us of things like the sun or fire.
Cool colors GREEN, BLUE and PURPLE
evoke a cool feeling because they remind us of things like water or grass.
Complementary Colors
Complementary colors are colors across from each other on the color wheel.
There are three pairs:
RED and GREEN
YELLOW and PURPLE
ORANGE and BLUE
Intermediate Colors
Intermediate colors (also known as tertiary colors) are the colors that come between the primary and the secondary colors on the color wheel.
When naming these colors, the primary name always comes first because the word primary means 1st.
Color Schemes
In art and design, a color scheme is an association of colors based on an organizational system. Basically, it's a set of colors that work well together to create a unified aesthetic.