Primary colours can not be made y mixing, and can make all the other colours on the colour wheel.
Primary colours are... RED,BLUE & YELLOW
Secondary colours are... PURPLE, ORANGE, GREEN
Tertiary colours are... RED ORANGE, RED YELLOW, YELLOW ORANGE, BLUE VIOLET, BLUE GREEN ETC...
A tint is a colour plus white
A shade is colour plus black
Isaac Newton first understood the rainbow and the colours, he did an experiment with a glass pyramid and shone a sing beam of light threw it and out the other side came the light in all its forms... the colours are; Red,Orange,Yellow,Green,Blue,Indigo & Violet.
It is easier to remember the anagram... 'ROY G BIV'
Warm colours are reds, orange, yellow
Cool colours are blue, green, violet.
Triadic colour schemes are 3 colours spaced equally apart on the colour wheel, eg, yellow, red, blue.
Split complementary colour schemes are two colours on either side of its complement colour. for example, blue and yellow orange and orange red.
complementary colour schemes are two colours that are opposite to each other on the wheel one of the examples could be yellow & purple.
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