The color system of light is referred to as the _______?
Additive Color System
100
The color wheel is not simply a pretty way to organize color, it can also be used as a _____________?
Map
100
A Hue/Color + White = ?
Tint
100
Cool colors recede while Warm colors ___________?
Advance
100
What kind of color harmony uses variation of one single hue?
Monochromatic Color Harmony
200
What are the color primaries of the SUBTRACTIVE color system?
Red, Yellow, and Blue
200
On the color wheel, what kind of colors can be used to create virtually all other kinds of colors?
Primary Colors
200
A Hue/Color + Gray = ?
Tone
200
What kind of SATURATION level does a very light tint of yellow have?
Low Saturation
200
What does it mean to say that colors are "adjacent" to one another on a color wheel?
They are directly next to one another.
300
What do wavelengths have to do with how we see color?
Different wavelengths bounce off certain surfaces and are absorbed by others - the ones that bounce off are perceived by our eyes and interpreted as specific color.
300
What kinds of colors do you mix to attain a tertiary color?
An adjacent primary and secondary color.
300
What kind of gray is created by mixing hues/colors rather than black and white?
Chromatic Gray
300
What specific grouping of colors on the color wheel will always be a little more prominent in a composition than other colors?
(Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Warm, Cool)
Primary
300
Color Harmonies are intended to bring Unity to the color scheme used in a composition - what happens if you intermix the colors in a color harmony too much?
The overall sense of unity lessens and can sometimes result in chaos.
400
Why are their two different kinds of pigment-primaries within the SUBTRACTIVE color system?
To bridge the gap between the Additive color system's color information and the Subtractive color system's ability to translate that material through pigments.
400
How is temperature mapped out on a color wheel?
One side is cool, the other warm.
400
While color can clearly be scientifically interpreted, we also perceive color as being deeply symbolic - making color _____________________ as well as scientific?
Psychological
400
If there is no living creature around to perceive the wavelengths bouncing off of surfaces as color information - does color truly exist?
Theoretically, no - color is an illusion created by light.
400
What is the most commonly used type of TRIADIC Harmony?
Primary Colors: Red, Yellow, and Blue
500
A true "hue" refers to what specific kind of color?
The colors that correspond with the 7 spectral wavelengths of color. ROY G BIV
500
Relationships between colors on a color wheel can provide a template to achieve unity in our composition. What do we call these kinds of color groupings?
Color Schemes or Color Harmonies
500
If you take away any trace of color in an image, you're left with what?
A full range of values corresponding to each colors inherent value.
500
Why are complementary colors - which by their very nature are direct opposites - actually create unity in a composition? What makes them go together?
Each pair contains a balance of all three primary colors.
500
When colors go against the cultural "norm" what results?