ART CH 1.4

Colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel are radically different in wavelength and are called ________.

Complementary colors

We generally associate a color with its purest, most intense state, or its highest level of ________.

Saturation (chroma)

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint. A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.

Shade

The element of art that describes the relative lightness or darkness of a hue, compared to another hue, is known as ________.

Value

When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition, they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast. This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet.

Vibrate

Subtractive color

When pigments are mixed, creating a darker shade.

Additive color

a color that becomes white when all colors have been added by mixing light waves

Analogous colors

colors that are next to each other on the color wheel

A color that is almost gray has a ________ saturation.

low

The traditional primary colors are _________.

red, yellow, blue