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| color | An element ot design with three properties, hue, value and intensity. |
| primary colors | Red, Yellow, and Blue |
| hue | The property of color that distinguishes one gradation from another and gives it its name. |
| secondary colors | Made by mixing two primary colors : green, orange, and violet. |
| value | Range of light and dark in picture. |
| intermediate colors | Produced by mixing primary colors and adjacent secondary colors on the color wheel. Ex. yellow-green; red-orange; blue-violet. |
| complementary colors | Two colors that are directly opposite on the color wheel. EX. red and green; yellow and violet. |
| intensity | The degree of purity or strength of a color, high intensity colors are bright and low are dull. |
| split complementary | On the color wheel, a hue which is combined with hues on either side of its complement. |
| pigment | A powered coloring material for paint, crayons, chalks and ink. |
| triadic | A color scheme of any three colors that are equal distance on the color wheel. |
| chiaroscuro | shading used to make something in a picture appear 3-D, to represent the effects of relfected light , to help establish a mood. |
| monochromatic | One color which is modified by changing the values and saturation of the hue by additions of black and white. |
| analogous | Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. |
| spectrum | The band of colors formed when a beam of white light is broken up by passing through a prism. EX. Rainbow |
| color wheel | A format arrangement of the primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. |
| tints | Made by adding white to a color. |
| shades | Made by adding black to a color. |
| cool colors | Those colors in which blue is dominant and found on the right side of the color wheel. |
| warm colors | Those hues in which yellow and red are dominant and are located on the left side of the color wheel. |
