Color+Vocabulary!

=Vocabulary Color =

===**Color:**  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 Wheel:**  A color wheel shows the primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary colors and how they 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. Intermediate, or tertiary, colors go between secondary and primary colors and they 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:**  Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Paintings that use only one color, in its different values, are called monochromatic. ===

 ** Shades: ** Colors mixed with black are called shades. Burgundy is a shade of red.
===**Analogous Colors: ** Analogous colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related. ===

=== ** Mood: **  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. === ===**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. ===

=== **Color Effects:**  When small dots of pure color are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix the colors. There are some artists that use color in an arbitrary way. Instead of imitating the natural colors of objects, they used colors for symbolic or expressive purposes. ===

===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **Black & White:** Black is the absence of color (and is therefore not a color). When there is no light, everything is black. White is the blending of all colors and is a color. === = = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Idioms =