What is Color Theory ?

What is color theory??

To be a good Artist one must know the color theory.

What is Color Mixing??

We need many colors for creating drawings, Paintings or Digital Art, so we can get all colors by color mixing.

Primary Colors

Primary colors can be mixed to create all other colors.

RED

BLUE

YELLOW

Secondary Colors

Secondary colors created by mixing Primary colors.

PURPLE (RED+BLUE)

GREEN (BLUE+YELLOW)

ORANGE (YELLOW+RED)

TERTIARY COLORS

Tertiary colors created by mixing Primary & Secondary colors.

RED-ORANGE

RED-PURPLE

BLUE-PURPLE

BLUE-GREEN

YELLOW-GREEN

YELLOW-ORANGE

HUE

Hue is the name of a color.

RED     BLUE  GREEN     YELLOW   ORANGE

SATURATION

Saturation is the Intensity or Purity of a hue.

VALUE

Value is the degree of Lightness & Darkness of a hue.

Shade

A Hue Produced by adding black.

Tint

A hue produced by adding white.

Tone

A hue produced by adding grey.

Temperature

Colors are categorized according to their temperature, as Warm colors and Cool Colors.

Warm Colors

REDS

ORANGES

YELLOWS

Cool Colors

PURPLES

BLUES

GREENS