COLOR THEORY TERMS

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Across
  1. 3. color scheme using one color to includes tints and shades
  2. 5. colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel
  3. 7. colors created by mixing colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel creating dull earth tone hues
  4. 9. colors created by mixing a primary color with an adjacent secondary color
  5. 10. element of art that is derived from reflected light
  6. 11. the visible portion of the electromagnetic light spectrum arranged by longest to shortest wavelength ROYGBIV
  7. 13. weak image of a complimentary color created on the retina as a physical reaction to staring at a color
  8. 14. plan for organizing colors
  9. 18. a dark value of any color created by mixing black into it
  10. 19. the spectrum bent into a circle used as a tool for organizing colors and identifying color schemes
Down
  1. 1. the brightness or dullness of a hue
  2. 2. one hue and the hues on either side of its compliment
  3. 4. colors that sit side by side on the color wheel and share a common hue
  4. 6. colors that cannot be mixed from other colors but are mixed together to create all other colors R,Y,B
  5. 8. a light value of any color created by mixing the color into white
  6. 12. scheme that uses three colors that are equally spaced on the color wheel
  7. 15. colors created by mixing two primary colors together O,G,P
  8. 16. The name of a spectral color related to the wavelength of reflected light
  9. 17. the lightness or darkness of a hue