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Color Theory Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the three Primary Colors?

a)

Red

b)

Green

c)

Yellow

d)

Blue

e)

Violet

2.

Which is true about PRIMARY COLORS?

a)

You can't mix them

b)

They make up all of the other colors

c)

There are four of them

d)

They are ugly

3.

What type of colors can you NOT mix? You have to START with these colors.

a)

Secondary Colors

b)

Tertiary Colors

c)

Primary Colors

d)

Analogous Colors

4.

What are the three secondary colors?

a)

Violet

b)

Blue

c)

Green

d)

Yellow

e)

Orange

5.

How do you mix a secondary color?

a)

Primary + Tertiary

b)

You don't

c)

Tertiary + Tertiary

d)

Primary + Primary

6.

Blue + Red =

a)

Violet

b)

Orange

c)

Yellow

d)

Green

7.

Yellow + Blue =

a)

Red

b)

Green

c)

Light Blue

d)

Turquoise

8.

Red + Yellow =

a)

Pink

b)

Green

c)

Violet

d)

Orange

9.

How do you mix a Tertiary Color?

a)

Secondary + Secondary

b)

Primary + Primary

c)

Primary + Secondary

d)

You don't

10.

How do you label the Tertiary Colors?

a)

You use the primary color, then the secondary color - "Yellow Orange"

b)

You use the secondary color, then the primary color - "Orange Yellow"

c)

You make up a fun name like "Sunset Orange"

11.

What is the tertiary color between blue and orange?

a)

Blue Orange

b)

Orange Blue

c)

There isn't one!

d)

Contrast

12.

What is the tertiary color between Violet and Blue?

a)

Blue Violet

b)

Violet Blue

c)

Dark Blue

d)

Ocean Blue

13.

How would you categorize these colors?

a)

Spicy colors

b)

Cool colors

c)

Complimentary Colors

d)

Warm colors

14.

How would you categorize these colors?

a)

Cool colors

b)

Warm colors

c)

Analogous colors

d)

Cold colors

15.

What does hue mean?

a)

They way a color is mixed

b)

The lightness or darkness of a color

c)

Another name for the color

d)

That there is a large amount of that color

16.

What does value mean in art?

a)

The amount of a color there is in an image

b)

How warm or cool a color is

c)

The lightness or darkness of a color

d)

How much a painting is worth

17.

To get a tint, you add _________________ to a color.

a)

White

b)

grey

c)

black

d)

medium

18.

To get a tone, you add _________________ to a color.

a)

white

b)

grey

c)

black

d)

medium

19.

To get a shade, you add _________________ to a color.

a)

white

b)

grey

c)

black

d)

medium

20.

What is contrast?

a)

When you use too much color

b)

When colors blend together

c)

The drastic difference between two colors

d)

When you don't use enough color

21.

What is the color scheme where you have three colors next to each other on the color wheen

a)

Complimentary

b)

Analogous

c)

Split Complimentary

d)

Triadic

22.

What is the color scheme where you have two colors directly opposite on the color wheel?

a)

Complimentary

b)

Analogous

c)

Dual

d)

Monochromatic

23.

What is true of Complimentary Colors? Pick 2

a)

They are next to each other

b)

They look good together

c)

You don't want to mix them

d)

They look bad together

24.

What color scheme uses 3 colors evenly spaced around a color wheel?

a)

Analogous

b)

Triangle

c)

Split Complimentary

d)

Triadic

25.

What color scheme uses a color and the two colors next to it's compliment?

a)

complimentary

b)

analogous

c)

Split Complimentary

d)

triadic

26.

What color scheme uses 4 colors arranged in 2 complimentary color pairs?

a)

Square

b)

Rectangle

c)

Triadic

d)

Opposite

27.

What color scheme uses 4 colors evenly spaced on the color wheel?

a)

Complimentary

b)

Rectangle

c)

Square

d)

Analogous

28.

What color scheme uses different values of the same color?

a)

Value

b)

Analogous

c)

Monochromatic

d)

Cool