The final
step to creating the 12 step color wheel will be to create a
ring around the newly formed primary and secondary color form. Divided into 12 equal segments, the primary and
secondary colors shall be repeated to their corresponding segment
within the surrounding ring. This will leave a blank segment
between every two colors. In these blank segments are formed
what is known as the tertiary colours.
Tertiary Colors: These colors are created when mixing one secondary and one primary color. i.e. blue +
violet = blue violet. Three or more separate colors
are mixed (one primary and one secondary – the combination of
two primaries), and in our color wheel each tertiary color being
created will be an equal combination of the two colors, left
and right, surrounding an open segment.
The
tertiary colors are: yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet,
blue violet, blue-green, and yellow-green.