The Color Wheel and Color schemes

1. The Color Wheel and Color schemes

3. Monochromatic color scheme Uses only one color and a variety of tints (white added) and shades (black or grey added) of that color

5. Elizabeth Peyton

6. Milton Avery

7. Analogous Color scheme Willem De Kooning red violet, red, red orange, orange

8. Analogous color schemes Uses colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. This creates a very unified design, but with more visual interest than in a monochromatic scheme.

9. Red-orange, Orange, Yellow-orange

10. Wolf Kahn: yellow orange, yellow, Red-orange (blueaccents)

11. Blue violet, violet, blue

12. Yellow-orange, orange, red orange, red

13. Complementary color scheme Colors that are opposite one another on the color wheel are complements. Complementary Color schemes utilize one complementary dyad (pair). Red-----Green Blue-----orange Yellow----purple

14. These are very eye-catching designs, but have the potential to be very jarring. Your choice of saturation will be very important.

15. Andy Warhol

17. Split-complementary color scheme A color combined with the two colors surrounding it’s complement. Lslightly more sophisticated and less aggressive than a complementary scheme. Purple—Yellow-orange—Yellow-green

18. Blue, red-orange, and yellow-orange

19. Green, red-violet, red-orange

20. Kehinde Wiley Red-Orange; Blue; Green

21. Red, Blue-green, Yellow-green

22. Quadratic • Four colors, equally spaced in the color-wheel

23. Willem DeKooning Blue-violet---Yellow-Orange Green---Red

24. Triadic Color Scheme • 3 equally spaced colors

25. Triadic Color Scheme: Red-Yellow-Blue

26. Fake Mondrian: Red, Yellow, Blue

27. Bridget Riley Blue-green, Blue-Violet, Yellow-Orange

28. Purple, Orange, Green

29. Name this scheme!!

30. Name this color scheme!!!