Color Quiz Flashcards
Subtractive Color
Color viewed in the medium of pigment as in paint
What are the three attributes of color?
Hue, value, and saturation
Primary
Basic building blocks from which all colors are mixed. Cannot be mixed from any other color.
Secondary
The mixture resulting from two primaries mixed in more or less equal proportion.
Intermediate
Mixtures of a primary color with a neighboring secondary color
When you add all the primaries you get a muddy dark grey or brown. Why is it that when you add any two secondary colors, or when you add a hue to its complement, the mixture will have a desaturating effect on the hues mixed?
Both mixtures contain all 3 primaries.
What does Josef Albers want you to learn about color by doing his color exercise in which you make on color look like two?
Color interacts: when you place on color next to another, they can interact in hue and value and saturation
Triad
Color spaced equally on a color wheel forming an equilateral triangle
Analogous
Colors that are closely related in hue. They are usually adjacent to each other on the color wheel
Complementary
Two colors directly opposite each other on the color wheels
Monochromatic
A color combination that has only one hue but a range of value
Achromatic
Colors that have an absence of hue
Warm Colors
Yellows, oranges, reds
Cool colors
Blue, violets
(EC) With what can you compare a color in order to know if it is fully saturated?
A color is described as saturated if it closely resembles the brightness of a hue when reflected through a prism, or the hue as seen in a rainbow
