The Color Wheel

What is the color wheel?

• Is a circular arrangement of colors organized by their chromatic relationship to one another

• The spinning circle on Wheel of Fortune

• The rainbow

• A circle of colors including black, white, and brown

What is a Primary Color?

• Green

• A color that can't be created by mixing two different colors

• The color wheel

• Primary colors are made with 2 primary colors

What are the Primary colors?

• Yellow, Red, Blue

• Blue, Pink, Brown

• Green, Red, Violet

• Red, Purple, Yellow

Where do the Secondary colors go?

What are the Secondary colors?

• Blue, Yellow, Orange

• Purple, Green, Red

• Orange, Purple, Green

• Violet, Burgundy, Yellow

What is a Secondary color?

• Red

• A color created by mixing two other colors together

• The second color of the color wheel

• Orange, Red, Blue

Have you ever heard of a Tertiary color?

• Yes

• No

How do you make a Tertiary color?

• By mixing a primary and a secondary color together

• By mixing two primary colors together

• By mixing red and yellow together

• By mixing two secondary colors together

Which of these are Tertiary colors? (Choose all that apply)

• Violet

• red-orange

• blue-violet

• yellow-pink

Primary (1) + Secondary (2) =