Color

 = = **C **** o ** **l ****o ** **r **  My favorite color is Orange because I feel that it is a color that represents my personality. It also represents happiness and that’s why I like it, because when I feel happy I want to show it; so, I were orange. I also like it because It is a fun color and very festive too. Although It is not easy to combine, It is a very strong color that always highlights. After doing the activities, I found out that what orange symbolizes resembles a lot my personality. I’m very active, charismatic, creative and ambitious. Also, I’m very enthusiastic and with a lot of energy, very social, friendly and caring, and I smile very easily. However, there are two things that orange symbolizes, that I’m not, and that is extravagance and exaggeration. Another thing that called my attention was that it says that people who like this color live there lives in the present and desire things that offer intense living and full experience, and I totally live my life that way, and I love it. media type="file" key="color.mp3"

  
 * **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.

> that use only one color and the tints and shades of that color are called monochromatic. > Saturation or intensity refers to the "purity" of color. A pure color is at its highest saturation, its most intense and brightest form. If white, black or another color is added to a pure color, its saturation decreases and its intensity drops.  
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">Color wheel:[[image:encyc_colorwheel.gif width="230" height="193" align="right"]] **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">This color wheel shows the primary colors(Red, yellow and blue). Primary colors are the most basic colors. You can't make them by mixing any other colors. Secondary colors (Green, orange and purple), they are made of the mix of orimary colors. the tertiary colors, which goes between secondary and primary colors. Here we can see the relationships between complementary colors across from each other on the color wheel, such as blue and orange; and analogous (similar or related) colors next to each other on the color wheel such as yellow, green and blue. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">Black and white may be thought of as colors but, in fact, they are not. White light is the presence of all color - black is the absence of reflected light and therefore the absence of color.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">Value: **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Colors mixed with white are called tints. Colors mixed with black are called shades. Paintings
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">Value: Tints and Shades **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">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. **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">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. ****<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">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.  **

<span style="color: rgb(255, 101, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> > Analogous colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related. Orange, yellow-orange, and yellow are an example of analogous colors. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">**Analogous Colors:**

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">Mood: **[[image:robert_koehler.jpg width="206" height="191" align="right"]]<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">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. Warm and intense colors appear to advance toward the viewer, while cool or dull colors recede. Sometimes the same color will appear to be two slightly different colors when placed against different backgrounds.

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> The dust and moisture in the atmosphere make the color of an object appear duller and less intense the further away it is from the viewer. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 144, 7); text-align: left; display: block;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">Natural colors: **[[image:carmille_pissaro.jpg width="251" height="196" align="right"]]<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;"> 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.

> Some artists use color in an arbitrary way. Instead of imitating the natural colors of objects, they used colors for symbolic or expressive purposes.Color can produces a feeling of harmony in the viewer or creates movement <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 144, 7); text-align: left; display: block;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 101, 0);">**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;">Color effects:[[image:frank_stellavar.jpg align="right"]] ** <span style="color: rgb(255, 101, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;">When small dots of pure color are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix the colors.When small dots of pure hue are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix these hues.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;"> White i s a color. White reflects all the colors of the visible light spectrum to the eyes. **<span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 101, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;">The colors we see are simply a degree of how much of this color present in light is reflected. To be completely accurate, a color reflects the wavelengths in the NM range that our retinal cones respond to. The medium is the process of reflection of the wavelength of the color. The receiver is our eyes which receive the wavelength of the color. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 101, 0); text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 144, 7);">**Black & White:** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: left; display: block;"> Black is not a color; a black object absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum and reflects none of them to the eyes. **