Color Wheel Presentation. This is good tool to use when teaching about the history of the color wheel.

2. The color
wheel is a
chart of colors
of the visible
spectrum that
is used to show
how colors
relate to each
other.

3.  In
1666, Sir Isaac Newton’s experiments
with light helped him begin his invention
for the first color wheel when he passed a
beam of sunlight through a prism.

4. The findings: All color is contained within
white light. When light passes through a
crystal prism, it is dispersed into the
spectrum’s range of visible colors.

5. Newton was able to
show the natural
sequence of color by
joining the two ends
of the color spectrum
together.

6.  The
modern
color wheel
does not show
the full
gradation in
the spectrum.
It shows the
whole thing
broken up
into 12
segments.

7. INFINITE COLORS
 In
reality, the segments actually smear
into one another so we have an infinite
number of colors.

8.  Some
color
wheels show
the progression
across the
middle to a
complete
neutral in the
middle.

9. The color wheel
is made up of
three PRIMARY
colors, three
SECONDARY
colors, and six
TERTIARY
colors.

10. You
CANNOT
make the
three
primary
colors! You
MUST buy
them.

11. You make the
secondary
colors by
mixing two of
the primary
colors
together.

12.  What
primary colors do you mix to make
orange?
 What
primary colors do you mix to make
green?
 What
primary colors do you mix to make
violet?

13. Tertiary colors
are created by
combining
equal parts of
the primary and
secondary
colors that are
closest to their
sides.

14.  It
is important to note that the primary
color name comes first in the tertiary
name.
• Red-violet
• Red-orange
• Yellow-green
• Yellow-orange
• Blue-violet
• Blue-green

15. You
can mix any color
of the rainbow by
mixing with the three
primary colors!

16. Color + White=
TINT

17. Color + Black= SHADE

18. Color + gray= TONE

19. Reds, oranges
and yellows are
considered
warm colors.
Blues, greens,
and violets are
considered
cool colors.

20.  Warm
colors are vivid and energetic,
and tend to advance in space.

21.  Cool
colors give an impression of calm,
and create a soothing impression. Cool
colors tend to retreat/recede in space.

22.  Colors
opposite of each other on the
color wheel.

23.  The
split-complementary color scheme is
a variation of the complementary color
scheme. In addition to the base color, it
uses the two colors adjacent to its
complement.

24.  These
are colors
next to each other
on the color
wheel. They
usually create
harmonious
combinations.

25. A
triadic color scheme uses colors that
are evenly spaced around the color
wheel.

26. A
monochromatic scheme involves one
color mixed with a variety of tints,
shades, and tones.