Friday, October 22, 2010

Color Theory Reading/Lecture Notes 10/22

Color Theory: The art and science of color interaction and effects.

Additive Color: A major system used in art, which is created using beams of light.
Subtractive Color: The second major system used in art. Color is created when white light is reflected off a pigment or a dyed surface.
Color Interaction: the way various colors interact with each other, since colors are never seen in isolation.
Color Overtones: A secondary hue bias in a primary color.
Color Interaction: The way colors influence each other.
Intensity, Saturation, and Chroma: refer to the purity of a color.
Monochromatic: Where variations of a single color are used. ex: different shades of blue.

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