Artists RYB color wheel and terms

First a few definitions for beginners.

Primary Colors: Red, yellow and blue – cannot be mixed from any other colors.
Secondary Colors: Two primary colors mixed together resulting in orange, green and violet.
Tertiary (Intermediate) Colors: One primary and one secondary mixed together.
Aggressive (Warm) Colors: Reds, oranges and yellows.
Receding (Cool) Colors: Greens, blues and violets.
Hue: Another name for color.
Tint: Color + White
Tone: Color + Gray
Shade: Color + Black
Key Color: Dominant color in a color scheme or mixture.
Neutral Grey: Combination of black and white.
Intensity or Chroma: The brightness or dullness of a color.
Value: The lightness or darkness of a color.
Mono-chromatic: Using any shade, tint, or tones of one color.
Analogous: Using any shades, tints, or tones of colors that lie adjacent to each other on the wheel.
Achromatic: A colorless scheme using, blacks, whites and grays.
Complementary Colors: Combing a shade, tint or tone of one color and the color opposite on the wheel. Example blue and orange.
Split Complementary: Choosing one color and using the color on each side of the complement on the color wheel.
Diad: Using two colors that are two colors apart on the color wheel. Example red and orange.
Triad: Color scheme in which three colors equally spaced from each other. Example the three primary colors – red blue and yellow.
Tetrad: A contrast of four or more colors on the wheel.

Quoted from Pocket Color Wheel

The Artistic Color wheel is based on the primary colors Red, Yellow and Blue.

Here's some visuals for every color category. The numbers on the left are the values and at the bottom is the chroma/saturation. One reason I find these images helpful is being able to see the value of a color at full saturation. For example yellow has a very high value and makes a good color to lighten other colors rather then using just white. These charts also make it clear what the difference is between value and chroma/saturation.

Yellow


Yellow-Green


Green


Blue-Green


Blue


Blue-Violet


Violet


Red-Violet


Red


Red-Orange


Orange


Yellow-Orange

Wow! What a great reference to be able to pull up as needed. Thanks Janet.
Judy

Judy, I'm glad you like it! The RYB color wheel is what I started with and studied many different color wheels after but ended up doing a full circle and coming back to this one.

Please disregard the color designations 2Y etc at the botton of the sheets as they're from a Munsell programme. Munsell differs greatly from RYB color wheel. The colors I slected for each color category on these are the ones that match the RYB color wheel.