Color_Vocabulary


 * Idioms with Color: **

Red tape A white lie Green with envy The black market The green light Out of the blue

It is a effect produced on the eye and its associated nerves by light waves of different wavelength or frequency. Light transmitted from an object to the eye stimulates the different color cones of the retina, thus making possible perception of various colors in the object.
 * Color **

It shows the primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary colors. It also shows the relationships between complementary colors across from each other on the color wheel, such as blue and orange; and analogous (similar or related) colors next to each other on the color wheel such as yellow, green and blue.
 * Color Wheel **

There are 3 types of Color Wheels: - **The artist's color wheel **. This color wheel uses red, yellow, and blue as primary colors. This is used for mixing paints. - **The subtractive color wheel. ** This color wheel uses the printing inks cyan, magenta, and yellow as primary colors. Note: Because cyan, magenta, and yellow inks do not combine to make black, the printing process adds black as a fourth ink. - **Additive Color **. This color wheel displays the additive colors used for projected light. When mixed together the additive primaries form white. The primaries are red, green and blue. These colors are extremely bright because light that is projected can be far more intense than printed color.

Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Colors mixed with white are called tints. Pink is a tint of red. Colors mixed with black are called shades. Burgundy is a shade of red. Paintings that use only one color and the tints and shades of that color are called monochromatic (one=mono; color=chromatic).
 * Value **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Analogous colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Orange, yellow-orange, and yellow are an example of analogous colors. They are blended nicely in Sunflowers, a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. How do you know that these colors are closely related? They share a color—each of them contains some yellow.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Analogous **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Colors are often associated with moods. For example, we say "green with envy," "a blue mood." Certain colors also look cool, such as blue, green and violet; and others look warm, like red, orange and yellow.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Moods **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Artists use colors to create a variety of desired effects. When an artist paints a scene or objects realistically, colors are used in imitation of the things being painted.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Natural Color **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When small dots of pure color are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix the colors. Notice that each dot of pure color the artist has used looks bright, but when your eye mixes them they are subdued, almost neutral.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Black is the absence of color (and is therefore not a color). When there is no light, everything is black. Test this out by going into a photographic dark room. There are no photons of light. In other words, there are no photons of colors. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">White is the blending of all colors and is a color. Light appears colorless or white. Sunlight is white light that is composed of all the colors of the spectrum. A rainbow is proof. You can't see the colors of sunlight except when atmospheric conditions bend the light rays and create a rainbow.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Black & White **