Color Theory Basics
If you wish to express yourself with color in wild, spontaneous ways, there are a few basic principles about color that you should understand.
THE COLOR WHEEL
The color wheel is a tool for organizing colors. It consists of three primary colors (red, blue, and yellow); three secondary colors (orange, green, and violet), which are created by mixing the primaries together; and six tertiary colors (red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet) that occur from a mixture of a primary and a secondary color.
HOW TO CREATE SECONDARY COLORS
COLOR CUES
In art, the word “value” refers to how light ...
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