color theory

IDENTIFY THE COLORTLE K TO 12 GRADE 7 (DRESSMAKING/TAILORING)

BLUE

RED

GREEN ORANGE

VIOLET YELLOW

COLOR THEORYCOLOR WHEEL

WARM COLORS AND COOL COLORS

QUALITIES OF COLORS

COLOR SCHEMES

COLOR THEORY

•The first thing you usually notice about clothes or anything is their color. Before you start studying which colors look best together, you should learn the meaning of color terms and the rules that apply to colors.

THE COLOR WHEEL

1. What are the primary colors?2. Why they are called primary colors?

3. What are the secondary colors?4. Why they are called as secondary

colors?

5. What are the tertiary colors?6. Why they are called as tertiary

colors?

The sources of all colors.

Mix two primary colors

Mix primary and secondary colors

1.What are the pure colors?

2.What are the neutral colors?

3.How lighter colors was produced? Darker colors?

4.What is grayed colors?

PURE COLORSthey have no white, black and gray in them. also called “normal, true and basic colors.

TINTSPure color are mixed with white, they are made lighter.

SHADESPure color are mixed with black, they are made darker.

GRAYED COLORSSoft colors, or dull colors.

Grayed colors rather than bright.

NEUTRAL COLORS

1. What colors do you think are the cool colors?

1. What colors do you think are the warm colors?

What is the warmest color?

What is the coolest color?

QUALITIES OF COLORS

•HUE- is the family group name of a color. It is the name of the color. Ones they are combined differently and given new names.

•VALUE: refers to the lightness or the tint or the darkness of the shade. The scale of the value colors are from the very lightest tint to the very darkest of the shade.

•INTENSITY- means the brightness or dullness of a color.

COLOR SCHEMES

ADJACENT COLOR HARMONY OR ANALOGOUS

Adjacent or colors that near with each other.

ONE COLOR HARMONY/MONOCHROMATI

C

The easiest color scheme to follow.

COMPLIMENTARY COLOR HARMONY

Opposite colors.

SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY

COLOR

Two colors adjacent to its complement.

TRIADColors evenly spaced around the color wheel.