{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/art-color-theory",
 "id": "art-color-theory",
 "title": "Color Theory",
 "category": "arts-music",
 "subject": "Visual Art",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Primary, secondary and complementary colors, warm and cool colors, and how colors mix.",
 "tags": [
  "color",
  "color wheel",
  "mixing"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Question",
 "backLabel": "Answer",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Primary colors (paint)",
   "Red, yellow and blue"
  ],
  [
   "Secondary colors",
   "Orange, green and violet"
  ],
  [
   "Tertiary colors",
   "Colors made by mixing a primary and a nearby secondary, like red-orange"
  ],
  [
   "Red + yellow",
   "Orange"
  ],
  [
   "Yellow + blue",
   "Green"
  ],
  [
   "Blue + red",
   "Violet (purple)"
  ],
  [
   "Red + blue + yellow in equal parts",
   "A muddy brown or gray"
  ],
  [
   "Complementary colors",
   "Colors opposite each other on the color wheel"
  ],
  [
   "Complement of red",
   "Green"
  ],
  [
   "Complement of blue",
   "Orange"
  ],
  [
   "Complement of yellow",
   "Violet"
  ],
  [
   "Complement of orange",
   "Blue"
  ],
  [
   "Complement of green",
   "Red"
  ],
  [
   "Complement of violet",
   "Yellow"
  ],
  [
   "Analogous colors",
   "Colors next to each other on the color wheel"
  ],
  [
   "Warm colors",
   "Reds, oranges and yellows"
  ],
  [
   "Cool colors",
   "Blues, greens and violets"
  ],
  [
   "Neutral colors",
   "Black, white, gray and brown"
  ],
  [
   "Monochromatic",
   "Using one hue with different tints and shades"
  ],
  [
   "Triadic color scheme",
   "Three colors evenly spaced on the color wheel"
  ],
  [
   "Split complementary",
   "A color plus the two colors on each side of its complement"
  ],
  [
   "Tetradic scheme",
   "Two pairs of complementary colors"
  ],
  [
   "Hue",
   "The name of a color"
  ],
  [
   "Value",
   "How light or dark a color is"
  ],
  [
   "Saturation",
   "How pure or intense a color is"
  ],
  [
   "Tint",
   "A hue plus white"
  ],
  [
   "Shade",
   "A hue plus black"
  ],
  [
   "Tone",
   "A hue plus gray"
  ],
  [
   "Pink",
   "A tint of red"
  ],
  [
   "Navy",
   "A shade of blue"
  ],
  [
   "Color wheel",
   "A circle showing the relationships between colors"
  ],
  [
   "Isaac Newton and color",
   "He used a prism in the 1660s to show white light holds all colors"
  ],
  [
   "Rainbow order",
   "Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet",
   "ROY G. BIV"
  ],
  [
   "Primary colors (light)",
   "Red, green and blue"
  ],
  [
   "Secondary colors (light)",
   "Cyan, magenta and yellow"
  ],
  [
   "RGB",
   "Red, green, blue; color model for screens"
  ],
  [
   "CMYK",
   "Cyan, magenta, yellow, key (black); color model for printing"
  ],
  [
   "Additive color",
   "Mixing light: adding colors makes white"
  ],
  [
   "Subtractive color",
   "Mixing pigments: adding colors makes darker colors"
  ],
  [
   "All colors of light mixed",
   "White"
  ],
  [
   "All pigments mixed",
   "A dark muddy color"
  ],
  [
   "Which colors seem to come forward?",
   "Warm, bright colors"
  ],
  [
   "Which colors seem to recede?",
   "Cool, dull colors"
  ],
  [
   "Red often shows",
   "Energy, danger, passion"
  ],
  [
   "Blue often shows",
   "Calm, peace, sadness"
  ],
  [
   "Yellow often shows",
   "Happiness, warning"
  ],
  [
   "Green often shows",
   "Nature, growth"
  ],
  [
   "Purple often shows",
   "Royalty, mystery"
  ],
  [
   "Chroma",
   "Another word for the purity of a color"
  ],
  [
   "Pigment",
   "Colored powder that gives paint its color"
  ],
  [
   "Dye",
   "A color that soaks into material"
  ],
  [
   "Opaque",
   "Does not let light through"
  ],
  [
   "Transparent",
   "Lets light through so you can see through it"
  ],
  [
   "Translucent",
   "Lets some light through"
  ],
  [
   "Primary colors cannot be...",
   "Made by mixing other colors"
  ],
  [
   "Simultaneous contrast",
   "How a color looks different next to another color"
  ],
  [
   "Colorblindness",
   "Difficulty telling certain colors apart, such as red and green"
  ],
  [
   "Highlight",
   "The lightest area of a painting"
  ],
  [
   "To make a color darker",
   "Add black or its complement"
  ],
  [
   "To make a color lighter",
   "Add white (or water in watercolor)"
  ],
  [
   "Sienna and umber",
   "Earth-tone brown pigments from clay"
  ],
  [
   "Ultramarine",
   "A deep blue pigment once made from lapis lazuli"
  ],
  [
   "Vermilion",
   "A bright red-orange pigment"
  ]
 ]
}