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Color theory crossword with hue, tint, shade, complementary, and analogous colors.
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An 18-clue crossword on color theory fundamentals for elementary and middle-school art instruction. Clues span primary and secondary colors, color-mixing concepts like tint and shade, color relationships such as complementary and analogous schemes, and descriptive terms like warm, cool, and monochromatic. Use it as a vocabulary review or warm-up before a color-wheel or color-mixing lesson.

Subject:
Art
Topic:
Painting
Grade Level:
4th – 6th Grades
Updated January 2017

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