Colour theory

There are three primary colours, Yellow, Red and Blue. These three colours can each be mixed together to create many other colours, depending on the ratio that you add. These are colours that cannot be created through the mixing of other colours. They are colours in their own right.

The Secondary Primary Colours are Orange, Purple and Green which the colour chart shows below. 

YELLOW + BLUE = GREEN BLUE + RED = PURPLE RED + YELLOW = ORANGE
An important rule of the colour wheel is that colours opposite to each other on the colour wheel usually work well together as a colour scheme. These are known as COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS.

Tertiary colors are combinations of primary and secondary colours.

There are six tertiary colors; red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet.

An easy way to remember these names is to place the primary name before the other colour. So the tertiary colour produced when mixing the primary colour blue with the secondary colour green, is called 'blue-green'.

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ROYAL BLUE

Make a PDF

Take the Base Color you have been given and find images of 5 shades with the same undertone in going in either direction (lighter and darker.)

The 11 images can be of anything.

Put them in order and Name the Colors.

Only one image can be from a paint chart.

Reference

The Pantone Color Chart.

Paint Color Charts.

Artist Paint Color Charts for Names

Make Up Brands for Names

Food, Flowers etc for Names

Colour theory - create colour charts that Im interested in - what works well together