Color Sketchbook Assignment

Due March 3rd with Color Project

• Design a composition and create 3 versions of it, each on a separate page:
1. A version using only 2 complimentary colors
2. A version using a triadic color palette
3. A version using a split-complementary color palette
• For each version, the composition must stay the same; only the color palette will change.
• Use only the hues you have chosen for each version.  Do not mix them with each other or with black or white.
• Use whatever material you prefer for this assignment, as long as it is a color medium.

Color Theory Terms & Images

• Color Wheel – A circle with different colored sectors used to show the relationship between hues.
• Hue – A pure color from the color wheel that has not been mixed with black or white.
• Saturation –  The intensity of a color, expressed as the degree to which it differs from white or black.
• Primary Colors – The three colors from which, theoretically, all other colors can be mixed:  red, yellow, and blue.
• Secondary Colors – The three colors which can be made by mixing two primaries in equal proportion: orange, green, and violet. 
• Tertiary Colors – Colors which can be made by mixing a primary color and a secondary color.
• Triadic Colors – Color relationships based on any three equidistant hues as shown on the color wheel.
• Complimentary Colors – Colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel that, when combined in the right proportions, neutralize each other.