WEEK+2_+Color+Vocabulary

IDIOMS WITH COLORS //use colors to express their meaning // [|Word Dinamo Colors]

 a white lie  to feel blue  green with envy in black and white  in the black  the black market  red tape **8) The OK to start something**:  the green light  the red carpet out of the blue  be in the red
 * 1) Something that is not true but causes no harm: **
 * 2) To feel sad: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">3) Jealous of someone else's good fortune: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">4) Very clear and easy to understand: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">5) Having Money: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">6) The market not controlled by the government: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">7) Complicated official procedures and forms: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">9) Special honours for a special or important person: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">10) By surprise, unexpectedly: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">11) Owing money, in debt: **

<span style="background-color: #d741f6; color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">ABOUT COLORS


 * COLOR**

Effect produced on the eye and its associated nerves by light waves of different wavelength or frequency.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #330066; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Geneva,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">//Primary colors:// are the most basic colors. Red, yellow and blue are the primary colors.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #330066; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Geneva,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">//A secondary color//: is made by mixing two primary colors. Orange, green and purple are the secondary colors.



Shows the primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary colors. It also shows the relationships between complementary colors
 * COLOR WHEEL**

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Color wheels are a way to arrange colors, making it easier to select a palette that works.
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The artist's color wheel. **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This color wheel uses red, yellow, and blue as primary colors. This is used for mixing paints.
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The subtractive color wheel **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. This color wheel uses the printing inks cyan, magenta, and yellow as primary colors. **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Additive Color **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. This color wheel displays the additive colors used for projected light. When mixed together the additive primaries form white

Refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Colors mixed with white are called tints. Colors mixed with white are called tints. Pink is a tint of red. Colors mixed with black are called shades.
 * [[image:http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/images/encyc_balancediagram2.gif width="270" height="188" align="left"]]VALUE**

**Tints** 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. **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.



Sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related.
 * ANALOGOUS COLOR**

Associated colors 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.
 * MOOD**


 * 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. Notice that each dot of pure color the artist has used looks bright, but when your eye mixes them they are subdued, almost neutral.


 * BLACK AND WHITE**

The color black is one of the eight basic colors, along with red, green, yellow, blue, cyan, magenta and white, corresponding toextreme forms of reception of the eye. White is the extreme end of the visual spectrum


 * COLOR AND FENG FHUI**

In the art of feng shui certain colors are associated with the 5 elements. Fire element colors red, orange, pink, warm. Earth element colors brown, beige, yellow. White metal element, gold, silver, off white Water element Black, blue, turquoise. Green wood element.