color wheel & color theory

Assignment: Create a traditional color wheel showing primary, secondary and tertiary colors.

Here is an example of a traditional color wheel.

Standards

9) Explain the function of the color wheel and identify techniques that achieve desired hues, values, intensities, and color schemes for use in design. 

10) Research the psychological characteristics of colors.

11) Examine color theories.

What I want you to know or do:
1. Name primary and secondary colors

2. Create a color wheel using correct primary, secondary and tertiary colors.

3. Identify color harmonies.

4. Define color terminology including subtractive, additive, hue, saturation, value color mode in design and printing.

Directions:
1. Click on this link for a color wheel template:
http://stevecampbellhillwood.blogspot.com/2015/12/color-wheel-template_25.html
2. Click once on the color wheel.
3. Then click and drag the color wheel in the new window onto your desktop.
4. When it appears on your desktop, click and drag it to the Photoshop icon to open it.
5. Go to Image>Image Size.
6. Be sure this is your document size:

7. Use the Paint Bucket tool to color in primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.

Create your colors using the Swatches Palette, Window>Swatches, and/or the Foreground Color Picker.

Foreground Color Picker




8. Save your work as Color Wheel_your name.

To see how colors are mixed: https://www.drawspace.com/lessons/view/r01

Your color wheel should look like this when you are finished:

http://art1hillwood.blogspot.com/2011/08/color-wheel.html