Light
The Wheel
Color Schemes
Vocabulary
100
An object that absorbs only red, yellow, orange, blue, and green.
What is a violet object?
100
colors which exist without mixing.
What are primary colors.
100
Black, gray, and brown.
What are neutrals?
100
The name of any color.
What is a hue?
200
The object is orange.
What is the color of an object which absorbs red, yellow, green, blue, and violet?
200
Primary Color + Primary Color
What are secondary colors?
200
Colors that are next to each other on the wheel.
What are analogous colors?
200
A color + white.
What is a tint?
300
All colors combined in pigment.
What is black?
300
Primary Color + Secondary Color.
What are tertiary colors?
300
Colors that are opposite each other on the wheel.
What complimentary colors?
300
A color + black
What is a shade?
400
All colors combined in light
What is white?
400
Colors not included on the wheel.
What are neutrals?
400
One color in many values.
What is a monochromatic scheme?
400
A color + gray.
What is a tone?
500
rods and cones
What are the parts of the eye which receive light and color?
500
Colors organized in a half circle on each side of the wheel.
What are warm and cool colors?
500
The absence of color.
What is achromatic?
500
The object which splits white light into color.
What is a prism?
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