Visual Arts Studio 1020 Midterm: VAStudio Test Info

• School: Western University
• Department: Visual Arts Studio
• Course: Visual Arts Studio 1020
• Professor: Tricia

Document Summary

Depends on light; no objects has an embedded color; it depends on the atmosphere. As artists, we use subtractive color: when pigments are added together, we get black (reality= brown). Black absorbs all the light, and white reflects all the color. Hue: refers to the name of the color. Ex= pink is not a color, is just a light value of red. Value: its is the lightness or darkness of a color. Add white and/or black to change the color. Saturation (brilliance, brightness of a color, or intensity): how vibrant a color is (the strongest color, brightest). If you want to break the saturation, you add the color that is on the opposite of the color wheel. Tertiary colors (mixture of a secondary w/ a primary). When placing opposite colors close to each other, the colors pop (ex= purple and yellow)= contrast of extension: using 50/50 of opposite colors to balance out a painting.