ACTIVIDAD 2
IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS ABOUT COLOR
Color: It is a basic element of visual language. It is a light impression that arrives to the eyes which send the information to the brain.
Sustractive mixture: Happens when we mix all the colors, or the three primary in equal parts, together and we get black as a result of the mixture.
Primary colors: They are the ones that cannot be obtained by mixing any other colors. In subtractive colors
they are: Yellow, Cyan (which is a kind of blue), and Magenta.
Secondary colors: They are the ones that are obtained from the mix of two primary colors in equal parts.
They are Red, Green and Blue.
Color wheel: It is a round diagram in which the primary colors are arranged as far as posible from each
other and the secondary, sometimes tertiary, in between them. Warm and cold (cool) colors are in the oposite
half of the wheel, and complementary colors are in front of each other.
Solid Color: When a surface is filled in with one single color with no hue, value or saturation variations and
with no other kind of infill.
Monochrome: It is an adjective for an image, picture or drawing which has only one color range.
Polychrome:It is an adjective for an image, picture or drawing that has several colors.
THE THREE PROPERTIES OF COLOR
Hue : Also called Tone or tint, it is the name of the color defined by its wavelength.
Saturation:Degree of purity of a color. If a color is very saturated it means that it is very pure and doesn’t
have many colors in its mix.
Value: Sometimes called brightness or luminosity. It is the amount of black or white that a color has in its
mix.
PAINT INGREDIENTS
Pigments: A powder that is mixed with a binder to give a paint, ink, ect. color. Pigments come from plants,
animals, vegetals, etc. and are usually given chemical treatments.
Binding medium or binder: An ingredient on paint, ink or dye that makes adhere pigments together and to the surface.
Palette / pallet: A flat piece of wood, plastic, etc, used by artists as a surface on which to mix their paints.
Also the range of colours featuring a particular artist, painting. A restricted palette occurs when a painting
has been done only some colors.
Solvent: A (usually) liquid substance which is able to dissolve the paint,either for cleaning, thinning, mixing,
or some particular step in an art technique.
COLOR HARMONY
Color Harmony: It is an theoric area of color that studies and deals about color combinations.
Color range: Also called scale of colors. It is a number of different colors which change, step by step, from
the first to the last one. Ranges can be leaded by variations of value, hue or saturation.
Warm range: It is a scale of colors that has either more yellow, more magenta, or both in its mixture. They
express warmth, energy, youthness or proximity
Cold / cool range: It is a scale of colors that has more cyan or blue in its mixture than any other color. They
are set on one side of the color wheel and transmit the temperature sensation of coldness and distance.
Contrast: It is a way of putting colors together so they look very different from each other. The contrast
that calls the attention the most is the one made out with complementary colors.
Analogous color: They are two or more colors that are next to each other on the color wheel and are
closely related.
Complementary colors: They are pairs of colors which are located one in front of each other on the color
wheel. A complementary of a primary is formed by the mix of the other two prymary in equal parts.
Gray Scale: (Grey UK) It is a set of colors which only has any color between black and white, it contains
a scale of grays.
COLOR VALUES AND VARIATIONS: DARK AND LIGHT.
You know that colors have differentdegrees of hue, value, saturation. But this is a specific way to talk about color. This three qualities of color are used by artits and designers.
So, How do regular people talk about color?
People mostly use two adjectives to describe the quality of a color. They use the word light or pale meaning that the color contains
more white in its mixture and dark meaning that the color contains more black on it’s mixture:
A NAME AND THE NAME OF THE COLOR.
We can also add a name in front of the color name, so we are explaining what color we are referring more accurately:
navy blue denim blue baby blue red hot dusky red cherry red canary yellow golden yellow lemon yellow bottle green grass green emerald green dark blue pale blue light red dark red.
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Reading comprehension
True or false? Correct the false sentences.
1.
Additive colours are colours of light.
2.
It is possible to make primary colours by combining other colours.
3.
Pigment colours are also known as subtractive colours.
4.
The additive and subtractive primary colours are the same.
5.
When two complementary colours of light are combined, the result is black.
6.
There are two additive secondary colours and two subtractive secondary colours.
7.
The secondary pigment colours are the same as the primary colours of light.
8.
Complementary pigment colours are yellow and blue, magenta and cyan, and green and red.
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practica con el círculo cromático
DIVIDIR LA CIRCUNFERENCIA EN 12 PARTES IGUALES
Dividir una circunferencia en 12 partes iguales.
Dividir una circunferencia en 12 partes iguales.
CONTENIDOS DEL LENGUAJE EN INGLÉS
Colours: cyan, purple, magenta, electric green, cadmium.
Describing proces: To make orange you have to mix yellow and red.
Comparing pictures: This picture is more colourful and this one looks more serious.
Comparing colours: This colour is darker.
Describing feelings: It makes me feel good.
Being able to express oneself orally about colours used and comment on one’s own work.
VOCABULARIO Y TERMINOS
Colour range
Colour range: Also called scale of colours.
Colour gradation from the first colour in the wheel to the last one.
Cold range: Colour scale with a prevalent cyan and blue combination.
Monochrome: Image, picture or drawing which has only one colour.
Polychrome: Image, picture or drawing that has several colours.
Warm range: Colour scale with a combination of colours related to yellow and
magenta, or both.
Colours
Colour: Basic element of visual language.
Light impression reaching the eyes, which sends this information to the brain.
Colour wheel: Way of organising colours.
Primary colours and warm and cold colours are opposite each other, with the
different combinations in between.
Complementary colours: Pairs of colours, situated opposite each other in the
colour wheel. A complementary of a primary is formed by mixing the other two primary
colours in equal parts.
Primary colours: Colours that cannot be obtained as a result of mixing any other
colours. The primary colours are yellow, cyan and magenta.
Secondary colours: Colours obtained by mixing two primary colours in equal parts.
The secondary colours are red, green and violet.
Harmony
Grey harmony: Images using a scale of greys,that is, with colour variations
mixing black and white.
Related colour harmony: Way of putting colours together in a drawing in
order to make them look similar.