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This refers to the relative degree of
lightness or darkness of a surface or color
What is value?
This color family cannot be created.
What are the primary colors?
The color family is created when mixing primary colors.
What is secondary?
The human eye can perceive at least this many shades of any one color.
What is 40?
This is color as it appears on the color wheel,
based on the eye’s sensitivity to specific parts
of the visible spectrum.
What is a hue?
Orange is an example of this color family.
What is secondary?
Red/orange/yellow & blue/green/violet are examples of these two color groupings.
What are warm and cool colors?
This artist equated yellow to the sound of a trumpet blast.
Who is Kandinsky?
This term describes the brightness or dullness
of a color. (Hint: there are two answers to this question)
This color scheme uses only one hue.
What is monochromatic?
This color family is created by mixing a primary color with a secondary color.
What is tertiary?
What is light?
Grays that result from mixing various
amounts of black and white are called this.
What is achromatic?
What is analogous?
You create this when mixing a color with black.
What is a shade?
This is the term use to describe color that we typically associate with the natural appearance of things.
What local color?
In a work of art, it is a technique using a gradual progression from light to dark.
What is Chiaroscuro?
The Clemson Tigers use this color scheme.
What is complimentary?
You can create this when mixing a color with white.
This term describes colors that do not reflect visible reality.
What is arbitrary/subjective color?