Color
What are pigments?
natural or chemical substances
What are the primary colors?
red, yellow, and blue
Who developed the first color wheel and when?
Sir Isaac Newton in the 18th century
How do you make a shade?
add black
What color scheme is yellows, oranges, and reds?
warm
How many colors are on the color wheel?
12
How many secondary colors?
3
Do pigments have color properties?
yes
How many tertiary colors?
6
What is a color prism?
a wedge shaped glass that light passes through
How do you make a tint?
add white
How do you lesson the intensity of a color?
adding the color straight across from it on the color wheel
What is color?
an element of art that is derived from reflected light
What color scheme is 2,3, or 4 colors side by side?
analogous
What is hue?
another name for color
What color has the darkest value?
blue-violet
What are complementary colors?
colors straight across from each other on the color wheel
What color scheme is blues, greens, and violets?
cool
What is value?
how light or dark a color is
Why is an apple red?
it reflects red waves and absorbs the rest of the colors
What color scheme is the tints or shades of a color?
monochromatic
What do you make when you mix complementary colors?
neutral colors or "grayed" colors
Can you make a primary color?
no
What the secondary colors?
orange, violet, and green
What color scheme is a color and the two colors on each side of its complement?
split-complementary
What is a color spectrum?
the bands of colors that a beam of white light is separated into
What is the color wheel?
the spectrum bent into a circle
What color scheme is three colors equally spaced from each other on the color wheel?
triads
What color has the lightest value?
yellow
What happens when you mix the primary colors?
you make all other colors
How many primary colors?
3
What is a shade?
a dark value
What is a tint?
a light value
What color scheme is black, white and grays?
achromatic
How can you change value?
adding black or white
How do you make tertiary or intermediate colors?
by mixing a primary color with the secondary color next to it
How do you make secondary colors?
by mixing two primary colors together
What color scheme is colors opposite each other on the color wheel?
complementary
What is the order of the color spectrum?
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet
What are the tertiary colors?
red-violet, red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-violet, and blue-green
