Color Theory Notes

All colors are made up of 3 primary colors. You can mix those 3 primaries to create the secondary colors, you can mix those secondaries to create the tertiaries colors. There can be warm colors, more to the red side of the spectrum, and the cool colors, more to the bluer side of the spectrum. We see color in the "Natural Color Spectrum", red to violet. We don't have a set wavelength for the color purple, it is our brains trick on the mind to create a new color. There are 2 different sets of primary colors, the pigment primaries, red, yellow blue, the subtractive model. And the light primaries, red, blue, green, the additive model. From a pure color you can create tints, shades, and tones. You do this by adding white, black, or gray to a pure color respectively. You can demonstrate harmony through color by using, complementary colors, analogous colors, and quadrilateral colors. Colors can have different intensities based on what color they are surrounded by, white or black background. Color can affect your appetite, your mind,