1. TheColour WheelTheColour Wheel

2. The Colour Wheel
• The colour wheel
shows relationships
between the colours.
• Artists often use the
color wheel to help
understand how
colours relate to one
another.

3. COLOUR
MIXING
• It's easy to mix paints to make new colours. You can use
the primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) plus black and
white to get all of the colours of the rainbow!

4. The Colour Wheel

5. Primary Colours
• The primary colours are red, blue, and
yellow.
• Primary colors cannot be made from other
colours.

6. Secondary Colours
• The secondary
colours are
orange, green,
and purple.
• Secondary
colours are
made from
mixing the
primary colors.

7. COLOUR
MIXING
Primary + Secondary
When you mix the Primary colours together, you get the
Secondary colours.

8. • Mixing primary and
secondary colours
creates tertiary colours.
Tertiary colours include:
1)Red-Violet
2)Blue-Violet
3)Blue-Green
4)Yellow Green
5)Red-Orange
6)Yellow-Orange
Tertiary Colors