One of the first things that many people learn when it comes to art is the color theory. This is the principles of art that covers the area of color mixing as well the effects of the different color combinations. It usually depicted in the form of a wheel or circle which is a form that is suggested by the famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton in 1666. This circle is divided into 3 major parts which include the primary, secondary and tertiary colors.
The primary colors are composed of the colors red, blue and yellow. They are called as such because they are regarded as the colors that are produced by themselves and not by the combination of any other color. They are the basis in which all the other colors are made and usually appear in the form of a triangle when seen on the color wheel.
The secondary colors are produced by mixing any of the two primary colors together. Red and blue produces violet; blue and yellow produces green and yellow and red produces orange. In the color wheel, they are usually placed in between the primary colors that compose them and like also appear in the form of a triangle like the primary colors.
The tertiary colors on the other hand are characterized by their compound names which describes the colors that were mixed to produce the. They are produced by mixing a primary color and a secondary color together. Example of this is blue – green which is made by mixing the primary color blue and the secondary color green; and red orange which is produced from the primary and secondary colors red and orange respectively.
