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Visual Arts: Elements & Principals of Art

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Elements & Principles of Art

Elements of Drawing

The Elements of Drawing - John Ruskin's teaching collection (Oxford). Stephen Farthing presents 8 practical drawing classes that use John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.

You can listen to these lessons as podcasts or download them in iTunes. Click here.

You can watch these lessons on video here.

Color Theory

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Elements & Principles of Art

Principals of Art Infographics

Color Theory: Overviews

Color Wheel

Color Wheels

The three color wheel charts below show the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Color spectrum's

Primary Color Wheel Chart

The three primary (or pigment) colors are the three colors in the chart that cannot be created by mixing any other colors together. The primary colors are red, blue and yellow. All other colors are derived from these three colors.The following primary, secondary and tertiary color wheels should help you.

Secondary Color Wheel Chart

The secondary color wheel chart comprising of yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green contains colors formed by mixing together the three primary (or pigment) colors.

Tertiary Color Wheel Chart

The tertiary color wheel chart is made up of colors created by mixing a primary (or pigment) color and secondary color together. Tertiary Colors are most commonly given a two word name such as yellow-orange, red-purple, red-orange, blue-green, blue-purple and yellow-green.