This science fair project will provide you with a lot of opportunities to experiment with the creation of new colors by color addition! Terms and Concepts If you have a red section and a yellow section on the drill, for example, these colors are added together by your brain and perceived as orange. When the wheel spins, the colors will add together to make a new color. A red section on the wheel, for example, is seen as red because it reflects red light while absorbing other colors. To do this, you will make a color wheel and attach it to a cordless drill. In this science fair project, you will add colored light together to determine what new colors can be formed. As more colors of paint are mixed in, more colors are subtracted, and the mixture becomes darker, eventually becoming black. For example, red paint absorbs (subtracts) green light, and the green paint absorbs (subtracts) red light, so when you mix the red and green paint, the mixture becomes a muted drab color, close to brown. Color subtraction is the process of absorbing certain colors. Why? This is because paint colors combine by color subtraction. If you mix red and green paint, however, the mixture is closer to brown than it is to yellow. The new color is made by adding colors of light together. Color addition involves combining different colors of light to form a new color of light.

If you mix all three colors of light-red, green, and blue-on a single spot on a screen, they form white light! This is called color addition. For example, red and green light mix to make yellow light. When two primary colors of light are mixed together, a secondary color is created. Finally, a knit throw and woven rug add textural variety to the narrow color scheme.Have you ever wondered from where all the beautiful colors that you see around you come? How are they made? It all starts with the three primary colors of light, which are red, green, and blue. You could also use small accessories (like this Better Homes & Gardens 4-wick Ceramic Candle, $15, Walmart) for a pop of a brighter tone. Brighter pink fabrics in the throw pillows keep the scheme from being dull. A livable powder pink canvases the painted walls, which are the largest portion of the room. The bedroom color scheme sticks to the pink wedge in the color wheel, but includes various tints that range from blush to rosy. This room, for example, shows a monochromatic palette that succeeds, thanks to a variety of shades and textures. A room filled with just one color can feel boring or overwhelming, depending on how you handle it. Although the monochromatic look is the easiest color scheme to understand, it's perhaps the trickiest to pull off. These tone-on-tone combinations use several shades (adding black) and tints (adding white) of a single hue for a subtle palette.

Primary colors spinning wheel