Color Theory

color wheel

The first ________ was developed by Sir Isaac Newton around the start of the 17th century.

Color theory

________: a body of principles which provide guidance on the relationship between colors and the physiological impacts of certain color combinations.

Color theory

a body of principles which provide guidance on the relationship between colors and the physiological impacts of certain color combinations

Tertiary colors are made by

mixing primary and secondary colors

General principals of color theory were evident in

writings of Leone Battista Alberti (c.1435) and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490)

Isaac Newton's color wheel was

an arrangement of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet on a rotating disk.

Since the origination of the color wheel by Newton,

it has become one of the most powerful tools available to artists for explaining the relationship between colors.

There are ___ tertiary colors

six

Color theory is one of the most

fundamental areas of painting.

The importance of understanding color theory

far exceeds simply knowing how to mix colors together

Using the primary colors,

you could mix pretty much any color in the spectrum.