12 Part Color Wheel Sphere

Vocabulary:

Color Wheel Order- the order in which the colors would be listed as it goes around the color wheel; (r)red, (r/o)red-orange, (o)orange, (y/o)yellow-orange, (y)yellow, (y/g)yellow-green, (g)green, (b/g)blue-green, (b)blue, (b/v)blue-violet, (v)violet, (r/v)red-violet, (then back to red)

Complementary/Contrasting Colors- Colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel. They are complementary color sets. The sets are black & white, red & green, blue & orange, and yellow & violet.

Cool Colors- Colors found on half of the color wheel. They remind us things that are cool; they are blue, green, and violet.

Neutral- The colors that are not part of the actual color wheel. They are the absence of color, all colors together, or complementary colors mixed together. They are white, black, brown, and gray.

Primary- Three pigment color that are mixed to create all other colors. Red, Yellow, and Blue

Secondary- Colors formed when mixing two primary colors together. Orange, Green, and Violet

Sphere- a Three-dimensional form of a circle; a ball

Tertiary- Colors formed when mixing a primary and a secondary color together. That is why the color has two names (primary-secondary) such as yellow-green, yellow-orange, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, and red-orange

Warm colors- colors found on one half of the color wheel, they remind you of things that are warm; they are red, orange, and yellow