Color_vocabulary

Color 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 wheel



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. Black and white may be thought of as colors but, in fact, they are not. White light is the presence of all color - black is the absence of reflected light and therefore the absence of 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).

**Tints ** are light values that are made by mixing a color with white. For example, pink is a tint of red, and light blue is a tint of blue. **Shades ** **﻿ **



are dark values that are made by mixing a color with black. Maroon is a shade of red, and navy is a shade of blue. Analogous Colors Analogous (uh-NAL-uh-gus) colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related. Orange, yellow-orange, and yellow are an example of analogous colors.

**Mood ** **﻿ **

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="color: #9ec341; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Natural Color **

<span style="color: #239f9f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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.

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<span style="color: #4a0fa3; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Some artists use color in an arbitrary way. Instead of imitating the natural colors of objects, they used colors for symbolic or expressive purposes. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Black ** <span style="color: #eb2439; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">and **<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">White **

**<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Color Theory 1 - Color as Light ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 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="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 14px;">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. You can also use a prism to demonstrate this.

**<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 14px;">Color Theory 2 - Color as Pigment or Molecular Coloring Agents **

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Black is a color. Here's a simple way to show how black is made: Combine all three primary colors (red yellow and blue) using a liquid paint or you even food coloring. You <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">won't get a jet black, but the point will be clear. The history of black pigments includes charcoal, iron metals, and other chemicals as the source of black paints. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Part 3 –Vision and Reflection

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 14px;">Colors exist in the larger context of human vision. Consider the fact that there are three parts to the process of the perception of color. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 14px;"> 1. The medium - The color as it exists as a pigment/colorant (such as the color of a tangible object) or as light (such as the color of an image on a television screen). <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 14px;"> 2. The sender - How the color is transmitted. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 14px;"> 3. The receiver - How humans see color. In other words, how we receive information about color.



<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Black is not a color; a black object absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum and reflects none of them to the eyes. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 14px;">White is a color. White reflects all the colors of the visible light spectrum to the eyes.

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">**In conclusion**



<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> The colors we see are simply a degree of how much of this color present in light is reflected. To be completely accurate, a color reflects the wavelengths in the NM range that our retinal cones respond to.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The medium is the process of reflection of the wavelength of the color. The receiver is our eyes which receive the wavelength of the color.

**<span style="color: #9ec341; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Green with envy **



<span style="color: #5a9e33; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jealous of someone else's good fortune. <span style="color: #549fed; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">To Feel Blue



<span style="color: #2022df; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To feel sad    <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">In the Black <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">

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