How does a color wheel work?
A color wheel is a helpful tool for learning about the basic color relationships. The wheel displays the relationships in a user friendly format to aid in color decisions for the working artist or crafter.Physical aspect of a color wheelA color wheel is a flat, circular object displaying the full spectrum of visual light broken into its constituent colors.Primary colorsThe initial gradation of a color wheel is made up of the primary colors; red, yellow and blue. The term primary indicates that they are pure colors with no inclusion of any of the others to modify the color.Secondary colorsThe next gradation is referred to as secondary colors and is composed of color made from equal parts of two adjacent primary colors; orange, green and purple.Tertiary colorsThe third gradation of color found on a color wheel consists of the tertiary colors. These are colors made from an equal blending of a secondary color and the adjacent primary color. An example would be red-orange, which is an equal
