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Personal Color Wheel
Objective: To familiarize ourselves to the color wheel so that we may become accustomed to blending colors based on its properties. This project is completed by selecting objects that have the base colors that represent the Primary, Tertiary, and Complementary colors on the color wheel.
All Sects Color Wheel
For my personal color wheel assignment, we were told to select an object for each section of colors (i.e. Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary) on the color wheel. I chose flowers because flowers come in all sort of colors and combinations. Each flower represents a different hue in the color wheel. I made sure to look at a color wheel to match up each color correctly.
Primary Colors
This color wheel magnifies the primary colors of the color wheel: red, blue, and yellow (or rby). These are the colors that cannot be mixed to come into creation. Other colors care created with primary colors + black/grey or white.
Secondary Colors
Secondary are colors that are a mixture of primary colors. So, red + blue = purple, yellow + blue = green, and yellow + red = orange.
Tertiary Colors
Tertiary colors are six colors made by mixing one primary and one adjacent secondary color together. This creates yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue green, blue-violet, red-violet, and red-orange.
Complementary Colors
Complementary colors are the colors directly opposite of each other on the color wheel, (i.e. red to green, redorange to yellow-green, and red-purple to blue-green).
Analogous Colors
Analogous colors are the colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel, (i.e. red-orange, orange, and yellow-orange).
Split-Complementary Colors
Split-Complementary colors use any color with two colors on either side of its complement and one color opposite color in between. For example: the red has red-violet and red-orange on either side, and the orange has red-orange and yellow orange on either side. Meanwhile, blue-green is across form the red-orange. It seems like the split-comp. colors are comprised of a mixture of 1 primary, 1 secondary, and 1 tertiary color.
Tetradic Colors
Tetradic colors use a combination of four colors that are two sets of complements. For example: red-orange/ yellow-green and red-violet/blue-green.
Triadic Colors
Triadic colors use three colors equally spaced from each other, (i.e. red, blue, and yellow).
All of these color combinations allow us to accurately blend colors to use in professional environments, painting/coloring, and in everyday life.
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