Color Quiz

Name and SHOW the Primary Colors
Red, yellow and blue are the primary colors.

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Can you mix (create) the primary colors from a combination of other colors? Why or why not?
No you can not mix other colors to create the three primary colors because these colors are the base for other colors.

What are the secondary colors? How are these mixed? Show all the secondary colors
The secondary colors are orange, violet, and green. They are created with the three primary colors. Red and yellow create orange, blue and yellow create green, and blue and red create violet.


What are the tertiary colors? How are these mixed? Show all the tertiary colors.
The tertiary colors are yellow green, yellow orange, red orange, red violet, blue violet and blue green. These colors are created by mixing yellow and green to make yellow green, mixing yellow and orange by creating yellow orange, mixing red and orange to create red orange, mixing red and violet to create red violet, mixing blue and violet to create blue violet, and mixing blue and green to create blue green.


What are the complementary colors? Name them and show all the combinations please. What happens when you mix complements?
Complementary colors are:
Yellow and Violet
Yellow Orange and Blue Violet
Orange and Blue
Red Orange and Blue Green
Red and Green
Red Violet and Yellow Green

When you mix complementary colors you get tertiary colors specifically browns.

Define 'Monochromatic'. Show me a monochromatic design please.
Monochromatic is tints and shades of one hue created in one piece of artwork.


What are 'analagous' colors? Define and name 2 sets. Show these 2 sets.
Analagous colors are colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.

Orange, Red Orange, Red


Yellow, Yellow Orange, Orange

Define, name and show a color tint. Define, name and show a color shade.
A tint is the hue/color plus white while the shade is the hue/color plus black.