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How would you

describe colors
to someone
who is blind?

What is color?
Color is what our eye sees
when light hits an object.
All the colors of the rainbow
are inside of a beam of light
but we only see what
reflects off an objectall
the other colors are
absorbed.

Hue

the name of a color

Isaac Newton

(1643-1727)

English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and

philosopher... pretty much one of the most important
people in human history!

Famous for:
Gravity & the laws of motion
Color Theory
Made the first working telescope
Helped develop calculus

Spectrum
collection of light rays that make
up the seven colors of the rainbow

Color pigments found at a market in India. Pigments are finely ground,

colored powders that form paint when mixed with a binder (material that
holds together pigment like wax, gum arabic, linseed oil). Pigments that
dissolve in water are called dyes.

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Use the list on your table to finish

this sentence:

_____________
describes me because...

THE MEANINGS OF COLOR

Red = energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination, passion, desire, love
Light red = joy, passion, sensitivity, love
Dark red= willpower, anger, leadership, courage, wrath

Orange = energy of red + happiness of yellow; joy, sunshine, tropical

Dark orange = dishonesty, distrust
Red-orange = violence, action

Yellow = joy, happiness, intellect, energy

Dull (dingy) yellow = caution, decay, sickness, jealousy

Light yellow = intellect, freshness, joy

Green = growth, harmony, freshness, safety

Dark green = determination, greed, jealousy

Yellow-green = sickness, weakness, conflict, jealousy

Blue = depth, stability, trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth
Light blue = health, healing, tranquility, understanding, softness
Dark blue = knowledge, power, integrity, seriousness

Purple = power, nobleness, luxury, ambition, wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity,

mystery, magic, wealth, extravagance
Light purple = dreamy feelings.
Dark purple = darkness, sad feelings, and frustration.

White = light, goodness, innocence, purity, perfection

Black = power, elegance, formality, death, evil, mystery

Color schemeis a plan for combining colors for what

you wear and in an work of art based on relationships in the color

wheel.

Color wheelis the

basic tool for combining colors.

The first circular color diagram
was designed by Sir Isaac
Newton in 1666.

Primary colorsthe

three basic colors, red, yellow, and

blue from which all other colors
are mixed.

Secondary colorsthe colors that result from

mixing two primary colors

(orange, green, violet)

Intermediate (tertiary) colorscolors

made by mixing a primary color with one right next to it

(Red-orange, Yellow-orange, Yellow-green, Blue-green, Blue-violet,

and Red-violet)

Valuethe range of light and dark in a color

Tintthe lighter values of a pure
hue made by adding white

Toneadding gray to a
pure hue

Shadethe darker value of a pure hue

made by adding black

Cool colors

when colors like blue

and green are dominate

Warm colors
when colors like red and
yellow are dominate

Monochromaticthe

values of one color made up of tints

and shades

Neutralcolors including black,

white, shades of gray and brown.

Analogouscolors
that are close to each
other on the color wheel
and are closely related
(yellow, yellow-orange,
orange)

Complementarytwo colors that are directly

opposite on the color wheel

Split complementaryA base

complementary color with two colors adjacent to its

complement.

Triad A triadic color scheme

uses colors that are evenly

spaced around the color wheel.

Tetradic (rectangle)-uses four colors arranged into

two complementary pairs.

Square--all four colors

spaced evenly around the

color circle.