1. COLOR THEORY

2. COLOR WHEEL
• THE
MODERN
COLOR
WHEEL HAS
12 COLORS
• ROY G. BiV
+ TERTIARY

3. COLOR HARMONY
• HARMONY DEFINED: a pleasing
arrangement of parts
• COLOR RELATIONSHIP: the fixed
relationship between colors based on the
color wheel
• COLOR SCHEMES: Complementary,
analogous, triadic, split-complementary,
monochromatic, warm/cool, tetradic
(rectangle), square

4. COMPLEMENTARY
Colors opposite each other on the
color wheel

5. ANALOGOUS
Colors that are next
to each other on the
color wheel

6. TRIADIC
Colors that are
evenly spaced
around the wheel

7. SPLITCOMPLEMENTARY
A color and
the two colors
adjacent to it’s
complement

8. MONOCHROMATIC
• Variation in lightness or saturation of a
single color

9. WARM/COOL
The color wheel is divided in two – warm
and cool

10. SQUARE: four colors
spaced evenly around
the color wheel
RECTANGLE (tetradic):
two sets of
complementary colors

11. GEORGE
BASELITZ

12. ALEX
PRAGER

13. JEAN
MICHEL
BASQUIAT

14. MERELLO

15. EDVARD
MUNCH

16. GRANT
WOOD