Color|Art1
________________ are mixtures of two primary colors. Red and yellow make __________, yellow and blue make ________, and red and blue make _________
Secondary colors; Orange; Green; Violet
All of the colors which we know are usually thought as belonging to one of two main groups, the ________ or _______ colors. ____(3)__________ are usually associated with the sun or fire and are considered ______. Any colors containing _______, such as greens, violet, blue-green, are associated with the ______, and sky and water are _______.
Warm, cool; Red, orange, yellow, warm; Blue, air, cool
Value refers to _________________________. The value of any color can vary greatly. When we add white to a hue it is called a ________. When black is added to a hue, it is known as a ________.
Darkness or lightness of a color; Tint; Tone
Complementary: colors are those that are ___________________________. This combination will produce a _________, ___________ composition. •example complementary pairs: (6)
Directly opposite to one another on the color wheel; Excited, lively; Examples- Green:red, yellow:violet, blue: orange, red-violet:yellow-green, red-orange:blue-green
Intensity refers to the ______________________. There are two ways to lower/decrease the intensity of a color. One way is to __________________. The other is to _____________________
Brightness of color; Mix gray with a color; Mix a color with it's complement
Analogous: involves the use of ______________________________. These hues may vary in __________
Colors that are next to one another on the color wheel; Value
The color wheel is the most __________ organization of the basic color. The wheel system dates back to the early ______________. The wheel that we will use has ________ hues, which are divided into three categories(___________, _______________, and ________________)
Common; 18th century; 12; Primary, secondary, intermediate
Color has three physical properties: _______, ________, and ________
Hue, value, intensity
The six _____________ or ____________ colors are mixtures of primary w/ an adjacent secondary color. •example: blue and green make ______________ •generally, these colors are with _________ amounts of primary and secondary. However, due to the high ____________ of __________ in certain media, this may need to be slightly altered. •For our purposes, you should see more of the __________ color than the ____________ in the final intermediate mixture. When labeling these, the _________ is always written first(ex:_________)
Intermediate, tertiary; Blue-green; Equal, concentration, pigment; Primary, secondary; Primary, red-violet
Yellows, oranges, and reds give us an __________ feeling of _________ and evoke __________________ reactions. Cooler blues and greens give us the feeling of ________________ & sometimes ____________. These are generalities of course, for the combination of colors within an artwork is ______ to this effect. Also, the artist can influence our reactions by the ________ and ___________of the colors selected.
Intrinsic, warmth; warm, happy, cheerful; Quiet, peace, melancholy; Vital; Values, intensities
Color beigns with and is derived from ________—either _________ or ___________. Where there is little light there is little _______. Every ray of light coming from the sun is compsoed of different ________ whcih are varying lengths and which vibrate at different speeds.
Light, natural, artificial; Color; Waves
Color is a property of ________, not the _________ itself. Objects have no color of their own, but merely the ability to __________ certain rays. This is called the _________________. Blue objects _________ all the blue ones, and these are ___________ to our eyes. Black objects __________ all rays; white objects _________ all rays. As light changes, ________ will change. Colors will also change according to their surroundings. Even in the same light, a color will appear diffferently depending on the colors that are __________ to it
Light, object; Reflect; Color quality; Absorb, reflected; Absorb; Reflect; Colors; Adjacent
When artists reproduce the colors seen in nature they are using _______color. Grass is green, skies are blue, and apples are red. The colors are simply the ones we typically can observe in an object's natural existence
Local
Hue simply refers to the ______________________ •ex: (3)
Name of the color; Red, violet, blue-green
________________ are red, blue, and yellow. From these colors, _______________________. These colors cannot be ___________.
Primary colors; All other colors are derived; Mixed
There are three basic color harmonies or _________. There are many other variations but these are the basic scheme from which those can be derived: (3)
Schemes; Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary
Natural colors are ignored when artists use __________________. The artist uses colors as he wishes without regard for the actual color of the object
Subjective color
Monochromatic: involves the use of ________________________. The visual effect of this scheme is extremely ____________ and generally ________
Various values of only one hue; Harmonious, quiet