Color Theory

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Across
  1. 2. The color is washed out or grayed out.
  2. 5. By adding white to any color to make it lighter.
  3. 9. The study of how colors work together and how they affect our emotions and perceptions.
  4. 11. Color is made by mixing yellow and blue.
  5. 12. Are the only hues that can’t be created by mixing any other colors together.
  6. 13. When you combine any two of the pure primary colors.
  7. 14. Features three or more that are positioned next to each other on the color wheel.
  8. 17. Named by temperature: red, orange, and yellow.
  9. 18. When you mix a primary and its nearest secondary on the basic color wheel, you mix six new mixtures.
  10. 19. By adding black to any color to make it darker.
  11. 21. Named by temperature blue, green, and violet.
Down
  1. 1. Color is made by mixing red and blue.
  2. 3. The intensity of a color; the measurement of how pure a color is.
  3. 4. Colors are any two hues positioned exactly opposite each other on the basic color wheel.
  4. 6. Taking any one of the twelve hues from the basic color wheel and repeating it in various tints and shades.
  5. 7. The element of art produced when light striking an object is reflected back to the eye.
  6. 8. A palette dominated by light values (midtone hues to white), often pastel and conveying a light, airy mood.
  7. 10. By adding black and wh:ite to a hue to adjust its intensity.
  8. 15. A palette dominated by dark values (midtone hues to black), creating a more dramatic or somber atmosphere.
  9. 16. Color is made by mixing yellow and red.
  10. 20. The 12 purest colors.