Color_Vocabulary

__**IDIOMS WITH COLORS **__
 * The OK to start something ** the green light
 * Jealous of someone else's good fortune ** green with envy
 * Something that is not true but causes no harm. ** a white lie
 * Complicated official procedures and forms ** red tape
 * Owing money, in debt ** be in the red
 * By surprise, unexpectedly ** out of the blue
 * Special honours for a special or important person ** the red carpet
 * Very clear and easy to understand ** <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">in black and white
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To feel sad ** <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">to feel blue
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Having Money **<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">in the black
 * <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The market not controlled by the government. ** <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">the black market

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**<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Color: ** <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 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. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Color wheel **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: 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. 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="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Value: **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 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


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Tints **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: 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.

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Shades: **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 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.

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Analogous colors **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related. For example: Orange, yellow-orange, and yellow are an example of analogous colors.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Moods: **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> 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.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Natural colors **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: When an artist paints a scene or objects **realistically**, colors are used in imitation of the things being painted.

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Color effects: **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Are effects that a painter can to obtain when apply different techniques with painting. For example When small dots of pure hue are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix these hues.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Black **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">is the absence of color (and is therefore not a color).When there is no light, everything is black. Test this out by going into a photographic dark room. There are no photons of light. In other words, there are no photons of colors.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">White **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> is the blending of all colors and is a color. Light appears colorless or white. Sunlight is white light that is composed of all the colors of the spectrum. A rainbow is proof. You can't see the colors of sunlight except when atmospheric conditions bend the light rays and create a rainbow. You can also use a prism to demonstrate this.

Warm colors occupy half of the space and cold colours the other half. That's like a colour Yin Yang. Yin colors are: Purple, green and blue. Cool colors have YIN energy and the most ying color is BLACK. Yang colors: Red, yellow and orange. Warm colors have YANG energy and the most yang color is RED.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yin Yang color Theory **

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