Elements- COLOR,VALUE, SPACE

Here are today's notes! Please include these in your Elements of Art page- next week we will be moving on to something much more exciting!

Color Wheel

Color Wheel Explanation

The Primary Colors: Blue, Red, Yellow

The Secondary Colors: Violet, Orange, Green 

     -made up of two primary colors

The Tertiary Colors: Blue-Violet, Red-Violet, Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green

     -made up of primary colors in a 2:1 ratio

Other Notes About Color

The complementary colors are blue-orange, red-green, and yellow-violet.  Mixing complementary colors results in a sort of muddy-brown.

Warm colors are red, yellow, orange.

Cool colors are blue, green, purple.

Value

Value is the range of a color.  Adding black makes a shade, adding white makes a tint.

Space

Positive space is figure.  Negative space is ground.