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Colored Pencil Color Theory Work Sheet

The document is a color theory worksheet that provides exercises on primary colors, secondary colors, analogous colors, tints, shades, and complimentary colors. Students are instructed to use color pencils to complete exercises fading and mixing colors within labeled boxes. The exercises explore how primary colors cannot be combined, secondary colors are made by combining two primary colors, analogous colors are side-by-side on the color wheel, tints add white to a hue, shades add black to a hue, and complimentary colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel neutralize each other's intensity when mixed.

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Colored Pencil Color Theory Work Sheet

The document is a color theory worksheet that provides exercises on primary colors, secondary colors, analogous colors, tints, shades, and complimentary colors. Students are instructed to use color pencils to complete exercises fading and mixing colors within labeled boxes. The exercises explore how primary colors cannot be combined, secondary colors are made by combining two primary colors, analogous colors are side-by-side on the color wheel, tints add white to a hue, shades add black to a hue, and complimentary colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel neutralize each other's intensity when mixed.

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COLOR THEORY WORKSHEET Name: _________________________

Use color pencils to complete the following exercises Period _____ Date ______________

PRIMARY COLORS cannot be made from any combination of colors. Fade intensity from top left to
bottom right – heavy to light – Stay inside the edges of your box
RED YELLOW BLUE

SECONDARY COLORS are made from combining 2 primary colors) Fade intensity from top left to
bottom right – heavy to light – Stay inside the edges of your box. Mix your own colors – no cheating
Red + Blue = Yellow + Blue = Yellow + Red =
PURPLE GREEN ORANGE

Sir Isaac Newton realized that the colors of the spectrum could be seen as a circle and thus the color wheel was invented.
THE COLOR WHEEL is made of the primary and secondary colors plus all of the colors in-between tertiary colors (a
primary + a secondary)
Shade the circles in lightly in the center and darker and more saturated on the edge to give the center a reflective
quality. Analogous Colors are side by side on the color wheel: Red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow
ANALOGOUS COLORS
Analogous colors are side by side on the color wheel – these are the transitional colors. In this
exercise you will limit yourself to 5 analogous colors in your palette
‰ Use the boxes below to create 5 analogous colors. Example: green, yellow/green, yellow,
yellow/orange, and orange. No colors were skipped; see your color wheel for ideas.
‰ The fade your colors from dark at the top to light at the bottom
‰ Be sure to label each box with the color it contains

A TINT
Hue (a color) + White =Tint

Select a hue and allow increasing amounts of white from the page to show through
The box on the left will be pure saturated hue (no white) the box on the right will be pure white

Pure Hue Pure White

A SHADE
Hue (a color) + Black = Shade Use the same hue you used in the exercise above
Start with a value scale - dark on left white on right
Alternate between the hue and black - intense on left and light on the right
Pure black + Medium White +
intense hue black + Light hue
medium
hue
COMPLIMENTARY COLORS:
Colors which are directly across from each other on the color wheel. When complimentary colors are
placed next to each other they appear to be brighter and more intense than when sitting next to other
colors.

Mixing a color with its compliment will neutralize the intensity of the color, this is great for
depicting shadows and distance.
The farther away a color is the less intense it becomes, artists generally add white or black and a
compliment.
Examples: Yellow and Purple
Blue and Orange
Red and Green
Fade intensity from top to bottom – heavy to light – Stay inside the edges of your box

RED RED + G RED + GG RED/GREEN GREEN + RR GREEN + R GREEN

YELLOW YELLOW + P YELLOW + PP Yellow/purple PURPLE + YY PURPLE + Y PURPLE

ORANGE ORANGE +B ORANGE +BB Orange/blue BLUE + OO BLUE + O BLUE


NEUTRALIZING COMPLIMENTS
Select one set of compliments for the exercise below
Orange and Blue
Red and Green
Yellow and Purple
‰ Top row label your complimentary colors (2 colors which are opposite on the color wheel)
‰ Work from a pure saturated hue in the bottom row to a very faint tint in the top row
‰ Mixed in will be a deep black in the bottom row up to a white in the top row

blue Blue + little orange Orange + Blue Orange + little orange


blue
white

Less
white

Light
grey

Med
grey

Dark
grey

black
Examples of compliments are:
• Red/Green
• Blue/Orange
• Yellow/Purple

NEUTRALIZING COMPLIMENTS
Select one set of compliments for the exercise below
Orange and Blue
Red and Green
Yellow and Purple
‰ Top row label your complimentary colors (2 colors which are opposite on the color wheel)
‰ Work from a pure saturated hue in the bottom row to a very faint tint in the top row
Mixed in will be a deep black in the bottom row up to a white in the top row

NEUTRALIZING COMPLIMENTS
Select one set of compliments for the exercise below
Orange and Blue
Red and Green
Yellow and Purple
‰ Top row label your complimentary colors (2 colors which are opposite on the color wheel)
‰ Work from a pure saturated hue in the bottom row to a very faint tint in the top row
Mixed in will be a deep black in the bottom row up to a white in the top row

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