VAR - Review of Color as Communication Module (Lesson)

Artists use color schemes in conjunction with a hue's innate emotional properties to create artworks that engage the viewer. The basic terms relating to color are value, hue and intensity.   Value is an element of art but refers to the lightness or darkness of individual colors. For example adding white to red creates pink a tinted value of red. Intensity refers to the brightness or purity of a color. The three basic color schemes   are primary, secondary and intermediate colors. Primary colors are true pigments that cannot be made from any other colors where secondary colors are created by mixing two primary colors. Intermediate colors are made when mixing a primary color with a secondary color. When value is applied to a hue it is a tint or a shade. A shade occurs when black is added to a hue and a tint occurs when white is added to a hue. A tint of blue would be light blue and a shade would be navy blue. Analogous color schemes are a family of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

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