Color+Vocabulary

 · ** 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. For example: yellow and orange. **Mood:** a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.  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.
 * Color: ** effect produced on the eye and its associated nerves by light waves of different wavelength or frequency. Light transmitted f[[image:http://static3.lineupblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/color_explition_by_roguexunited.jpg width="263" height="231" align="right"]]rom an object to the eye stimulates the different color cones of the retina, thus making possible perception of various colors in the object.
 * [[image:http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/images/encyc_colorwheel.gif width="339" height="289" align="left"]]Color Wheel:** is an instrument that shows the primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary colors. It also shows the relationships between complementary colors across from each other on the color wheel, such as blue and orange; and analogous (similar or related) colors next to each other on the color wheel such as yellow, green and blue.
 * Value: **refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
 * Analogous Colors **are the colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">Natural Color: **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">**Color Effects:** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msolist: Ignore; msothemecolor: text1;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">When small dots of pure color are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix the colors. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msobidifontweight: bold; msolist: Ignore; msothemecolor: text1;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Some artists use color in an arbitrary way. Instead of imitating the natural colors of objects, they used colors for symbolic or expressive purposes.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;">**Black and White:** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Black and white may be thought of as colors but, in fact, they are not. White light is the presence of all color - black is the absence of reflected light and therefore the absence of color.