A color wheel has 12 sections, each one representing a color. There are three primary colors, ... (adding black) and tints (adding white) of a single hue for a subtle palette.

Isaac Newton invented the first color wheel in 1666, and since then artists have studied and designed other wheels based on Newton's concept. Most color wheels have a total of 12 main divisions ...

Ironically, though, his first color wheel was in black and white—and did not feature any color on the diagram! Color Wheel Organization. The evolved color wheel. Photo: sunyixun/Getty Images.

In the installation Color Wheel, the color of the gestures on each canvas are complementary to the background color. Alex Munro, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Pat Steir’s color wheel is ...

Instead of using one color's exact opposite on the color wheel, it uses the two colors next to the opposite. Instead of red and green, for example, a split-complementary scheme would be red, blue ...