Color
The 3 Primary colors.
Blue, Red, Yellow
When you add white to a color
A tint
Sunlight passes through a prism and breaks it into banbs od color, in what is known as the :
Spectrum
a technique that uses closely spaced parallel lines lines
hatching
A painting that has only tints and tones of one color is called
monochromatic
The secondary colors.
Orange, Purple, Green
When you add black to a color
Shade
The point where light hits directly on an object
highlghts
a color's relative brightness or dullness
intensity or saturation
a style of art invented by Georges seurat, where the artist paints in small dots of color
pointillism
Colors that are between a secondary and primary color such as red purple are called what?
intermediate or tertiary
Another name for color
Hue
Leonardo da Vinci's rules for creating the illustion of depth in landscape painting is called what?
atmospheric or aerial perspective
when artists shade different values to show how light falls accross an object
modeling
the human eyemay be able to distinguish how many different colors
10 million
Colors that lie opposite each other on the color wheel
complementary colors
The specific name for Yellow-green
chartreuse
The Italian term for shading light to dark
Chiaroscuro
when one set of hatches is crossedat an angle by a second, and sometimesa third set
cross hatching
a liquid that makes paint easier to maniplulate
medium
Colors that lie next to each other on the color wheel
Analogous
List 2 cool colors
Purple and blue
An important Baroque technque that uses murky backgrounds
tenebrism
When an artist paints outdoors
plein-air painting
the range of colors an artist prefers to use
the artist pallette