Color+Vocabulary


 * Color: ** It is the effect produced on the eye and its associated nerves by light waves of different wavelength or frequency. Light transmitted from an object to the eye stimulates the different color cones of the retina, thus making possible perception of various colors in the object.




 * Color Weel: ** A color wheel shows how colors are related. On a color wheel, each secondary color is between the primary colors that are used to make it. Orange is between red and yellow because orange is made by mixing red with yellow. Colors are made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color that is next to it. Red-orange, yellow-orange and yellow-green are some intermediate colors.




 * Value: ** It refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Colors mixed with white are called tints. Pink is a tint of red. Colors mixed with black are called shades. Burgundy is a shade of red. Paintings that use only one color and the tints and shades of that color are called monochromatic.




 * Tints ** are light values that are made by mixing a color with white. For example, pink is a tint of red, and light blue is a tint of blue.

**Shades** are dark values that are made by mixing a color with black. Maroon is a shade of red, and navy is a shade of blue.




 * Analogous colors ** sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related. Orange, yellow-orange, and yellow are an example of analogous colors.




 * Moods: ** Colors are often associated with moods. For example, we say "green with envy," "a blue mood." Certain colors also look cool, such as blue, green and violet; and others look warm, like red, orange and yellow. Warm and intense colors appear to advance toward the viewer, while cool or dull colors recede.




 * Natural Color: ** Artists use colors to create a variety of desired effects. When an artist paints a scene or objects realistically, colors are used in imitation of the things being painted, so they try to use the same colors that we appreciate in the reality.



__ Pointillism: __ When small dots of pure color are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix the colors. __ Unreal color uses: __ Some artists use color in an arbitrary way. Instead of imitating the natural colors of objects, they used colors for symbolic or expressive purposes. Artists also selected colors for expressive purposes.
 * Color effects: **



The artists have used colors simply for the way in which they react with one another. For example, in this picture the intense red semi-circle and how it advances toward the viewer. The less intense colors seem to recede. Here, color creates movement.




 * [[image:X7PM000Z.jpg width="199" height="270" align="left"]]Black & White: ** According to scientists “Black is not a color, white is a color” but according to an artist “Black is a color, white is not a color.”

1. Black is the absence of color (and is therefore not a color) When there is no light, everything is black. Test this out by going into a photographic dark room. There are no photons of light. In other words, there are no photons of colors. 2. White is the blending of all colors and is a color. Light appears colorless or white. Sunlight is white light that is composed of all the colors of the spectrum. A rainbow is proof. You can't see the colors of sunlight except when atmospheric conditions bend the light rays and create a rainbow. You can also use a prism to demonstrate this. Fact: The sum of all the colors of light adds up to white.

​ ** Idioms with C O L O U R S **

__The OK to start something__ à the green light

__To feel sad__ à to feel blue

__Having money__ à in the black

__Something that is not true but causes no harm__ à a white light

__Special honors for a special or important person__ à the red carpet

__Owning money, in debt__ à be in the red

__Be surprise, unexpectedly__ à Out of the blue

__Complicated official procedures and forms__ à red tape

__Very clear and easy to understand__ à in black and white

__The market not controlled by the government__ à the black market

__ Jealous of someone else’s good fortune __ à green with envy