Color

Achieving balance with color – add an equally weighted aspect with a piece

Analogous - a color scheme that combines several hues located next to each other on the color wheel

Arbitrary color - Artists make choices on the basis of personal preference

Color as emphasis – using contrasting colors to make one item stand out among the rest

Color characteristics - Hue, Value, and Saturation

Color discords – A perception of dissonance in a color relationship.

Color dominance - The dominant color in a composition

Color symbolism - Employing color to signify human character traits or concepts.

Complementary colors - accentuate each other in juxtaposition and neutralize each other in mixture

Cool and warm colors - A color closer to blue on the color wheel, and a color closer to the yellow-to-red side of the color wheel

Emotional color - A subjective approach to color use to elicit an emotional response in the viewer

Hue - A property of color defined by distinctions within the visual spectrum or color wheel. “Red,” “blue,” “yellow,” and “green” are examples of hue names

Intensity - The saturation of hue perceived in a color

Local color - The identifying color perceived in ordinary daylight.

Monochromatic - A color scheme using only one hue with varying degrees of value or intensity

Palettes - the range of colours characteristic of a particular artist, painting, or school of painting

Properties of color - Hue, Value, and Saturation

Spatial properties of color – Contrast, Saturation, Bright/warm colors

Triadic  - A color scheme involving three equally spaced colors on the color wheel

Vibrating colors - Colors that create a flickering effect at their border. This effect usually depends on an equal value relationship and strong hue contrast

Visual color mixing - Placing small units of color side by side so that the eye perceives the mixture rather than the individual component colors

Color Wheel

Color Gradiation

Emotional Color

One color Scheme

Vibrating Colors