Color+Vocabulary

=COLOR VOCABULARY =


 * **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: **  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. 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.


 * **Color wheel (second definition): **  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. What goes between secondary colors and primary colors? Intermediate, or tertiary, 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.
 * **<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Value: ** <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 21px;"> 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 (one=mono; color=chromatic).
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Times; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Value(second definition): <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The lightness or darkness of a color is called its value. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Geneva,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Tints: <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Tints <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> 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. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Geneva,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Shades: ** <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">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.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Geneva,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Analogous colors: ** <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> Analogous colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Geneva,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mood: ** <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Certain colors also look cool, such as blue, green and violet; and others look warm, like red, orange and yellow.

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Natural color ** <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">: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.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Times;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Color effects: ** <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> When small dots of pure color are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix the colors. Notice that each dot of pure color the artist has used looks bright, but when your eye mixes them they are subdued, almost neutral.Some artists use color in an arbitrary way. Instead of imitating the natural colors of objects, they used colors for symbolic or expressive purposes. In this painting the artist selected colors that symbolized universal principles such as spiritual harmony with nature, not the colors he really saw.Color, also can make a movement effect, strong colors tend to look nearer than less intense colors.

IDIOMS WITH COLORS
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">IDIOM ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">MEANING ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> The green light ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> The OK to start something ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Out of the blue ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Be surprise, unexpectedly ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Green with envy ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Jealous of someone else's fortune ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Be in the red ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Owing money, in debt ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">To feel blue ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">To feel sad ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">A white lie ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Something that is not true but causes not harm ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">In the black ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Having money ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">In black and white ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Very clear and easy to understand ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">The black market ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">The market not controlled by the government ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> The red carpet ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Special honors to a very special or important person ||
 * = <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Red tape ||= <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Complicated official procedures and forms ||