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| grays that are created by mixing black and white. ________ have no coloration when seen against a white background. Black and white are also _________. |
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| A color mixing system in which combination of different wavelengths of projected light create visual sensations of color. ________ primaries are red, green, and blue-violet; when they are combined, the result is white light (Theater) |
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| occurs after staring at an area of intense color for a certain amount of time and then quickly glancing away toward a white surface where the complimentary color seems to appear. |
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| hues that lie adjacent to each other |
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| an irregularity; a deviation from a norm. _________ is one that breaks sharply with the dominant tonal quality established bya group of colors. |
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| the vehicle in paint, such as acrylic resin(polymer), in which pigment is suspended. |
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| tones, tints or shades that combine qualitites of two distinctly different colors and act to soften those differences when placed near them in a composition. |
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| Broken color (broken value) |
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| an effect when paoint is applied lightly, whith a dry-brush effect, over a dried layer of paint, allowing some of the underneath color (value) to show through. Typically achieved through scumbling. |
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| subtle colors that result from cosiderably lowering the saturation level of prismatic colors. ________ weakly exhibit the distinguishing quality of the hue family to which they belong. |
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| hues that lie direction opposite each other on the color wheel |
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| color sensitive cells in the retina |
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| a color that appears to be closer to the blue-to-violet side of the color wheel |
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| the result of the sub-division of the (subtractive) primary triad into three pairs consisting of cool and warm versions of each hue. The use of _______ greatly extends the potential range of mixed colors. |
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| an illusion of transparency where a color of the overlapping area is darker in value than both colors that appear to overlap. The hue in a _________ blends the hues of the two parent colors equally. |
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| a painting technique in which one suface (the "decal") is painted and then pressed, which still wet, against the painting; when the decal is peeled away, some paint remains stuck to the painting in a pattern, often with unexpected qualities. |
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| a primary triad of chromatic grays (so called beacuse of their resemblance to pigments found in nature, e.g., ochre and umbers. |
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| a thin layer of transparent color aplied to the surface of a painting. |
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| a painting technique in which an artist presses a texture surface/object onto a wet canvas producing an imprint. |
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| a graduated representation of the value continuum that is borken down intoa finite number of steps, usually ten, eleven, or twelve achromatic grays |
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| what an image is said to be when the colors in it are predominatly light in value. |
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refers to the wavelength of light as seen in the full color spectrum from red to violet. A _______ is modified to create a variety of colors. EX Hue=blue, colors=prussian, ultramarine, cerulean, cobalt, indigo. |
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| a painting technique in hwich paint is applied in thick layers or strokes to create a rough three-dimensional paint surface. |
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| the light that seems to glow from within the color |
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| the natural value of colors as they appear in the spectrum. EX: spectral blue is darker in value than yellow |
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| not based on carbon chemistry, but instead are derived from natural minersal and ores. These matirals are oxides, sulfied and vraious salts of metallic elements. Most ____________ offer relatively low chroma, low inting strength and a moderate to high degree of opacity EX: cadmium colors, chromium colors, titatnium dioxide, zinc white and yellow ochre. |
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| the process in which two of more light waves of the same frequency interact to cancel each other out |
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| the display of intense, shifting hues as seens on the surface of soap bubbles or puddles of water with oil |
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| the identifying color perceived in ordinary dayligh |
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| what am image is said to be when the colors in it are predominatly dark in value. |
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| the amount of light reflected from the surface of a color. Value is a measure of this. |
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| the overalltone of a pigment, or its distinguishable HUE when viewed in a large mass/puddle or thick layer of paint. The __________ is harder to distinguish on the darker valued colors such as Dioxazine Purple, Burnt Umber, Pthalo Blue... |
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| an illusion of transparency where the value of the color at the overlap is halfway between that of the two parent colors. The hue of the overalapping area lends the hues of the two overlaying colors equally. |
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| what an image is said to be when the colors in it are predominatly medium in value. |
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| a color scheme based on one hue plus black and white. _________ schemes can inclue a range of values and saturation levels may also strecth the definition of one hue to inclue several different versions of it (color shifts/intensity changes). |
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| rich but softened colors that reside on our color wheel between prismatic color and chromatic gray |
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| black, white and (achromatic) grays. |
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| a surface impenetrable by light. |
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| this occurs when small color gragments are organized in a tight pattern, appear to fuse, and from a distance, appear as a single mixed color. |
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| are formed from complex carbon chemistry and are synthetically derived in laboratories. Most _______________ offer high chroma, high tinting strenth, and exceptional transparency. EX-hansa yellow, qinacridone magent, pthalo blue and napthol red light. |
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| a term borrowed from music to describe the secondary hue "bias" of a primary color. EX: scarlet is a red that has an orange bias, while alizarin crimson is a red that leans toward violet |
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| a powdered, insoluble, color substance that is suspended in liquid binder to make paint. |
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| a painting done outdoors. |
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| objects painted in more than one color, or decorated in numerous colors. |
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| __________ is called so because thoretically, all colors can be mixed from it. |
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| pure hues that prepresent the colors of the color spectrum at their higest saturation level. While these are theoretically infinite in number, our color wheel distributes them evently into 12 hues. |
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| the bending of light as it travels ovliquently from one medium to another, changing speeds. It is due to ________ that while light passing through a prism spreads out to become spectral hues (spectrum). |
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| the inner surface on the back at the eye on which images are projected. The ________, sensitive to ligh and color, sends the information to the brain. |
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| due to the psysiology of the retina, looking at a color results in a decreasing sensitivity to that color. |
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| a term coined by harriet Schorr in reference to painting from observation in a manner emphasizing the faithful transcription of colored shapes as they appear in the retina of the eye. An outgrowth of Impressionism, this method favors accurate doclor rendering over drawing to describe form. |
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| ligh sensitive cells in the retina that enable us to distinguish value in dim light. |
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| sometimes called intensity or chroma, _________ refers to a relative purity of hue present in a color. A highly s________ color vividly shows a strong presence of hue; conversely, low ____________ color refers to a weak hue presence. |
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| a graphic representation of the infinite gradations of saturation that exist between any complementary colors. |
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| are a mixture of two primary colors. |
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| a painting technique, which involves scratching or incising lines into a wet layer of paint to expose ap revious layer of different color. |
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| the result from mixing a color with black. |
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| the effect created by two complimentary colors seen in juxtaposition. Each color seems to increase the intensity of its compliment. |
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| the range of visible and invisible wavelengths created when white light passes through a prism. |
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| a color and the two colors, which are adjacent to the color's compliment. EX: red and yellow-green and blue-green. |
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| colors seen in pigment as the result of reflected light. red, yellow, and blue (also known as a triad) and when all three are mixed together produce a dark tone that approaches black. |
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| colors seen in pigment as the result of reflected light. _________primaries are red, yellow and blue (also known as a triad) and when all three are mixed together produce a dark tone that approaches black. |
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| a color scheme involving four colors equally spaced on the color wheel. |
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| also called intermediate colors are a mixture of a primary and a secondary colors (there are 6 of these.) |
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| the result mixing a color with white. |
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| the ability of a color to change the character of another color. We etermine this by adding the same amount of titanium white to each color and observing the resulting strengh of the color mixture. Weaker tinting colors create light pastel mixtures. Stonger tinting colors create darker mixtures. |
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| made by mixing an achromatic gray with a color or adding a complimentary color. |
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| a situation in which an object or form allows light to pass through it. |
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| a situation in which objects, forms or planes transmit and diffuse light but have a high degree of opacity that does not allow clear visibililty through the form. |
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| a color scheme involving three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. |
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| the ________ of a color is visible when a color is spread very thin over a white surface. |
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| the relative quality of lightness or darkness in a color. |
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| colors borders that create a flickering effect. this is usually dependarnt on a close value relationship and strong hue contrast. |
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| the range of visible color created when white light is passed through a prism. |
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| a two-dimensional illusion suggestive of a tactile quality. |
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| a color that appears to be closer to the yellow-to-red side of the color wheel. |
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| in light, the distance between two consecutive light wave peaks. The distance determines hue. |
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| a subtractive painting technique used to create an image. |
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