Color+Vocabulary

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 * **ID** **IO MS ** ||= **DEFI NIT IONS ** ||
 * Having money. ||= in the black ||
 * Owing money, in debt. ||= be in the red ||
 * By surprise, unexpectedly. ||= out of the blue ||
 * To feel sad. ||= to feel blue ||
 * The market not controlled by the government. ||= the black market ||
 * Something that is not true but causes no harm. ||= a white lie ||
 * Very clear and easy to understand. ||= in black and white ||
 * Jealous of someone else's good fortune. ||= green with envy ||
 * The OK to start something. ||= the green light ||
 * Complicated official procedures and forms. ||= red tape ||
 * Special honours for a special or important person. ||= the red carpet ||

  Color, effect produced on the eye and its associated nerves by light waves of different wavelength or frequency.

 Light transmitted from an object to the eye stimulates the different color cones of the retina, thus making possible perception of various colors in the object.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Color Wheel
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> A color wheel shows how colors are related. On a color wheel, each secondary color is between the primary colors that are used to make it. Orange is between red and yellow because orange is made by mixing red with yellow. What goes between secondary colors and primary colors? Intermediate, or tertiary, colors are made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color that is next to it. Red-orange, yellow-orange and yellow-green are some intermediate colors. Black and white may be thought of as colors but, in fact, they are not. White light is the presence of all color - black is the absence of reflected light and therefore the absence of color.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">A color wheel arranges colors around the edges of a circle. Primary colors are in the middle. Three common color wheels are the artist's wheel, the subtractive wheel, and the additive wheel.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> The artist's color wheel. This color wheel uses red, yellow, and blue as primary colors. This is used for mixing paints.



<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">The subtractive color wheel. This color wheel uses the printing inks cyan, magenta, and yellow as primary colors. **Note:** Because cyan, magenta, and yellow inks do not combine to make black, the printing process adds black as a fourth ink.



<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Additive Color. This color wheel displays the additive colors used for projected light. When mixed together the additive primaries form white. The primaries are red, green and blue. These colors are extremely bright because light that is projected can be far more intense than printed color.





<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Analogous colors** sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Orange, yellow-orange, and yellow are an example of analogous colors. They are blended nicely in //Sunflowers//, a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. How do you know that these colors are closely related? They share a color—each of them contains some yellow.



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The lightness or darkness of a color is called its **value.**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Colors mixed with white are called tints. Pink is a tint of red. Colors mixed with black are called shades. Burgundy is a shade of red. Paintings that use only one color and the tints and shades of that color are called monochromatic (one=mono; color=chromatic).

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Colors are often associated with **moods**. For example, we say "green with envy," "a blue mood." Certain colors also look cool, such as blue, green and violet; and others look warm, like red, orange and yellow.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">**Natural Colors** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> Artists use colors to create a variety of desired effects. When an artist paints a scene or objects realistically, colors are used in imitation of the things being painted.



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The dust and moisture in the atmosphere make the color of an object appear duller and less intense the further away it is from the viewer.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">**Fantastic Effects**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> When small dots of pure color are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix the colors. Notice that each dot of pure color the artist has used looks bright, but when your eye mixes them they are subdued, almost neutral.



<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> When small dots of pure hue are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix these hues. Notice the brightness of the pure hues the artist has used.



<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> In this painting the artist has used colors simply for the way in which they react with one another. Notice the intense red semi-circle and how it advances toward the viewer. The less intense colors seem to recede. Here, color creates movement!



**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Color Aplication in Feng Shui **

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**<span style="color: #00e5ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cool ** colors have yin energy. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Black** is the most yin color. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**<span style="color: #ff4d00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Warm ** colors have yang energy. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Red ** is the hottest color and is the most powerfull.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The five elements are an integral part of [|feng shui basics] so it’s important for you to understand each **feng shui element** and how it can affect your environment. These elements are a representation of both you and your surroundings. In order to determine how to effectively use the elements in your home, you must first find out which element you are associated with.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">To understand the way each **feng shui element** works, you have to first understand the productive and destructive cycles that govern the way the elements interact with each other. Both cycles are continuous, allowing all five elements to balance each other to create harmony. The productive cycle demonstrates how each element produces or helps to create another and the destructive cycle demonstrates how each element destroys another.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This **feng shui color** chart will show you the colors that are associated with each of the five elements, wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Two or more colors represent each element and they can be an effective tool for embodying the forces behind that element. Here is a look at each element’s colors and their acquired meaning.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Wood__** – the colors used to represent the element wood include greens and browns. They take on the meaning of growth, hope and rebirth. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Fire__** – the colors used to represent the element fire include purples, pinks, reds, oranges and dark yellows. They take on the meaning of wealth, love and reputation. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Earth__** – the colors used to represent the element earth include light yellows, beige, taupe and light browns. They take on the meaning of stability and nourishment. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Metal__** – the colors used to represent the element metal include white and grays. They take on the meaning of clarity and creativity. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__Water__** – the colors used to represent the element water include blues and black. They take on the meaning of purity and wisdom. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The **map bagua** is an eight sided diagram that is used specifically on the layout of individual rooms or an entire home. It is in the shape of an octagon, with sections split up for each of the eight sides with an additional section in the middle. Each of these sections represent a different area of your life and they also have different colors and directions associated them. By using the bagua, you will be able to find the exact locations within a room or within your home which corresponds to the different sections of the bagua.