Color Theory 1
The name of the color
what are Hue
3 warm colors
What are Red, Orange, Yellow.
3 cool colors
Blue, Green, Purple
Red and Yellow make this color.
What is Orange?
Computer monitors use light to produce this color.
What are subtractive colors
These are Lightened colors. Any color plus white mixed in.
What are Tints
Darkened colors. Any color plus black mixed in.
What are Shades
The location of a complementary colors scheme
What are Colors that are across from each other on the color wheel.
Colors that produce the illusion that they are closer to the viewer.
Artworks created with tints, tones, and shades of black and white
What are achromatic artworks
A systematic way of using the color wheel to put colors together.
What are Color Schemes
These are the Primary colors.
What are Red, Yellow, Blue?
When we hear the word sky we think of the color blue is referred to
What is local color
Yellow and Blue make this color
What is Green
Colors adjacent on a color spectrum
What are Analogous Colors
The lightness and darkness of a color.
What is value?
These are the secondary colors.
What is Orange, Green, Purple
Mixing primary colors together we get these colors.
How to make secondary colors
The color that results from mixing complementary colors.
What are muted or neutral colors
A color that blocks out another
What is opacity
These colors fall in between the primary and secondary colors.
What are intermediate
A single hue illustrated as a full range of values.
What does monochromatic mean?
The Chart used to define colors
The color wheel.
The ability to perceive colors of objects, invariant to the color of the light source.
What is color constancy
Refers to the characteristics of color in terms of brightness or dullness.
What is intensity