Color_Vocabulary

Color Vocabulary

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**, 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.


 * 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).

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.

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.

> Explanation: > 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. > Explanation: > 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.
 * Black** is the absence of color (and is therefore not a color)
 * White** is the blending of all colors and is a color.

Cool colors have yin energy black is the most yin color warm color have yang energy red is the hottets color
 * FengShui:**

Is color important in architecture, why? Yes, because the color helps you to determine different sensations, like warm or cold, size, scale and proportion of a closed room, light or shadow, and other things.

Owing money, in debt: be in the red to feel bad: to feel blue having money: in the black The Ok to start something: the green light