Color Properties
What element of art refers to light reflected by an object?
Color
What are the three primary colors?
Red, Blue, Yellow
What color scheme uses colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel?
Analogous
What colors make up a warm color scheme and a cool color scheme?
Red, Orange, Yellow - Purple, Green, Blue
What type of paint layer completely conceals the color underneath it?
Opaque
Name of a color on the color wheel?
Hue
What do you call a color made by mixing two primary colors?
Secondary Color
What color scheme uses colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel?
Complementary
What do you call a lighter version of a hue made by adding white?
Tint
What type of layer allows the color underneath to show through partially?
Translucent
What property of color describes how light or dark it is?
Value
What secondary color do you get when you mix blue and yellow paint?
Green
What color scheme uses three colors that are equally spaced around the color wheel?
Triadic
What do you call a darker version of a hue made by adding black?
Shade
What is the painting technique of applying a translucent film of color over another painted surface?
Glazing
What property of color describes its brightness or dullness?
Intensity
What do you call a color made by mixing one primary color with one secondary color?
An intermediate color
An artist uses several tints, tones, and shades of only blue. What color scheme are they using?
Monochromatic
What color do you add to another color to make it a tone?
Gray
What painting method uses opaque strokes in one pass, without planning to rework them after the layer dries?
An artist creates a grayscale study of an object, using very light, medium, and very dark areas to make it appear three-dimensional. Which property of color are they exploring?
Value
An artist mixes yellow with green. What type of color can this mixture create?
An intermediate color, such as yellow-green
An artist chooses red and then uses the two colors on either side of red’s complementary color. What color scheme is this?
Split-complementary
An artist wants to dull a bright red using its opposite color on the color wheel. Which color should they mix with red?
Green
An artist builds a painting gradually with several layers, allowing each new layer to modify the colors underneath. What method are they using?
Indirect Painting