Color-Vocabulary

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. 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. - **The primary colors **, red, yellow and blue. -Two primary colors can be mixed to create a ** secondary color **. -The combination of a primary color with a secondary color creates another color called a ** tertiary color **. Tertiary colors are also known as intermediate colors. -Colors next to one another on the color wheel are called ** analogous ** (it means "related"). Analogous colors share a common color and usually appear to be in harmony.
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 * **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.


 * **<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Value **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">: refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Colors mixed with white are called tints. Colors mixed with black are called shades. Paintings that use only one color and the tints and shades of that color are called monochromatic.


 * **<span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Saturation or intensity **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">: refers to the "purity" of color. A pure color is at its highest saturation, its most intense and brightest form. If white, black or another color is added to a pure color, its saturation decreases and its intensity drops.

====<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-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: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Moods **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">: 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: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Natural Color **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">: 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="color: #00b0f0; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Some Color Effects **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-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="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; text-align: justify;">Some persons believe that the white and black not are a colors, inclusive exist tree theories of that, the first theory (Color as light) said that black is not a color, and white is a color. The second theory (Color as pigment or molecular coloring agents) said that: black is a color, and white is not a color. And the third theory (Vision and Reflection) said that: Black is not a color; a black object absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum and reflects none of them to the eyes, and White is a color. White reflects all the colors of the visible light spectrum to the eyes. ====
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