Friday, April 25, 2014

Vocab.

Analogous Color- are groups of colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel, with one being the dominant color, which tends to be a primary or secondary color, and two on either side complementing.


 Complementary Colors-colors directly opposite each other in the color spectrum, such as red and green or blue and orange, that when combined in the right proportions, produce white light.






 Primary Colors-any of a group of colors from which all other colors can be obtained by mixing.












 Secondary Colors-a color resulting from the mixing of two primary colors.




 Tertiary Color- are a combination of full saturation of one primary color plus half saturation of another primary color and none of a third primary color.Tertiary colors have specific names, one set of names for the RGB color wheel and a different set of names and colors for the RYB color wheel.
 Asymmetry and Symmetry -having parts that fail to correspond to one another in shape, size, or arrangement; lacking symmetry.