Color_Vocabulary


 * Idioms.**


 * The green light:** The OK to start something.
 * Be in the red:** Owing money, in debt.
 * In the black:** Having money.
 * To feel blue**: To feel sad.
 * In black and white:** Very clear and easy to unsderstand.
 * The black market:** The market not controlled by the government.
 * A white lie:** Something that is not true but causes no harm.
 * Green with envy:** jealous of someone else's good fortune.
 * Out of the blue:** By surprise, unexpectedly.
 * Red tape:** Complicated official procedures and forms.
 * The red carpet:** Spetial honor for a special or important person.


 * 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, Color Wheel II, kinds of Color Wheels: Color wheels are a way to arrange colors, making it easier to select a palette that works. A color wheel arranges colors around the edges of a circle. Primary colors are in the middle. Three common color wheels are the artist's wheel, the subtractive wheel, and the additive wheel. Color wheels are helpful in the discussion and selection of colors using any color model. A standard color wheel has 12 distinct hues, but does not have any visual information about saturation or value. These 12 hues can be classified in three categories, primary, secondary, and tertiary.
 * **Primary** colors are the defining colors of the wheel. In the color wheels below, they appear in the center as well as equally spaced around the circle. On the traditional artist's color wheel red, blue, and yellow are primary colors.
 * **Secondary** colors are the three colors that are equal distant from the primary colors. On the traditional artist's color wheel violet, green, and orange are secondary colors.
 * **Tertiary** colors are the colors between each primary and secondary color. On the traditional artist's color wheel red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, and red-orange are tertiary colors.
 * Value: Value 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).
 * Value, Tints & Shades: The lightness or darkness of a color is called its **value.** You can find the values of a color by making its tints and shades. **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.
 * Analogous Colors: Analogous colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related.
 * Mood: Colors are often associated 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.
 * 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: Some artists use color in an arbitrary way. Instead of imitating the natural colors of objects, they used colors for symbolic or expressive purposes.
 * Black & White: Black is the absence of color (and is therefore not a color); a black object absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum and reflects none of them to the eyes. White is the blending of all colors and is a color; it reflects all the colors of the visible light spectrum to the eyes.
 * Color and Feng Shui: colors are used in Feng Shui to express different energies and elements, colors are told to be suited to express things or adapt to people, so they are used depending on what they are meant to express to color walls and furniture and adding them to different spaces. Warm colors being the Yang and cool colors the Yin.