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:** This 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.

**Color Wheel II:** A color wheel shows how colors are related. On a color wheel, each secondary color is between the primary colors that are used to make it. Orange is between red and yellow because orange is made by mixing red with yellow. What goes between secondary colors and primary colors? Intermediate, or tertiary, colors are made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color that is next to it. Red-orange, yellow-orange and yellow-green are some intermediate colors.

 **Kinds of Color Wheels:**
 * *  he artist's color wheel. This color wheel uses red, yellow, and blue as primary colors. This is used for mixing paints.  ||  [[image:http://www.devx.com/assets/articlefigs/8524.gif]] ||
 * * 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. || [[image:http://www.devx.com/assets/articlefigs/8525.gif]]   ||
 * *  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.  || [[image:http://www.devx.com/assets/articlefigs/8526.gif]] ||

**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).



<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The lightness or darkness of a color is called its **value.** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tints ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">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. **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Shades ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> 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.

<span style="color: #5e118d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**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.

<span style="color: #e17819; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14px;">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; line-height: 14px;"> <span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14px;">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 class="apple-style-span" style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14px;">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. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',verdana,geneva,helvetica,arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="bold" style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14px;">**Is black a color? Is white a color?** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14px;">The answer to whether white and black are colors combines both of the theories described in Part 1 and Part 2. Pigments and coloring agents are only half of the answer.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14px;">Here's how we see color: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14px;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 14px;">The color of a tangible object originates as a molecular coloring agent on the surface of the apple. We see the color of an object because that object reflects “a color” to the eye. Every color is the effect of a specific wavelength. Link to <span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',verdana,geneva,helvetica,arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; text-decoration: none;">[|Electromagnetic Spectrum] at Color Matters.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 14px;">In the case of the apple, we see the color red because the red apple reflects the specific wavelength of red (440nm is red).

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 14px;">The same theory applies to black and white. <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">