Changes to color
Vocab
Colors
Art Items
Famous Paintings
100

What is a tint?

Any color plus white.

100

What is a hue?

The name of a color.

100

What are primary colors?

Red, yellow, blue

100

What do you call this?


Paint Palette

100

What is this piece of art called?


The Starry Night

200

What is a shade?

Any color plus black.

200

What is value?

The color’s relative lightness or darkness compared to other colors.

200

What are secondary colors?

Orange, green, Violet

200

What is this?


Easle

200

What is this art piece called?


Mona Lisa

300

What is tone?

Any color plus gray.

300

Monochromatic

A harmony in which most of the color palette is comprised of one major color plus white, gray, and black.

300

What are intermediate colors?

A primary color plus a secondary color

300

What is this?


Paint Roller Tray

300

What is this art called?


The Scream

400

What is a compliment mix?

Any color plus its opposite, resulting in earth tones. The addition of a base brown.

400

Harmonies

Kinds of strategies or groupings of colors that the artist prefers to accentuate an emotional characteristic to give work the feeling they want it to have.

400

What is a color palette?

The range of colors used by an artist in a particular work of art. The palette may be described as “open”, including many colors, or it may be described as “closed”, including very few colors.

400

What is Mod Podge used for?


Mod Podge is used as a glue sealer that adds a clear protective layer on art work.

400

What is this painting titled as?


American Gothic

500

What is warmth and coolness?

Warm colors are categorized according to warmer and cooler versions of the color. Warm colors traditionally are red, orange, and yellow. They are used to draw attention to an area or make it come out towards the viewer. Cool colors, such as blue, green and violet, tend to recede.

500

Neutralizer

Pigments that cause the original color to be much pure intense or saturated by altering it and making it duller. We do that with the addition of white, gray, and colors opposite.

500

What is the definition of color?

It involves light refraction, wavelengths that are absorbed and that bounce off objects and are received by our eyes and deciphered into color. Its complex physics.

500

What kind of paint is this?


Acrylic Paint

500

What is the name of this painting?


Van Gogh's Self Portrait