Color_Vocabulary

Complicated official procedures and forms - **Red tape**
 * Idioms and colors meaning **

Jealous of someone else's good fortune **- Green with envy**

Special honours for a special or important person - **The Red Carpet**

Having money - **In the black**

Very clear and easy to understand **- In black and white**

The OK to start something - **The green light**

Something that is not true but causes no harm **- A white lie**

To feel sad - **To fell blue**

By surprise, unexpectedly - **Out of the blue**

Owing money, in debt - **Be in the red**

The market not controlled by the government. - **The black market**



[|Word Dynamo-Color Vocabulary]

 Colors definitions

**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.
 * Color wheel**:Is a way to arrange colors around the edges of a circle. It also shows the relationships between the primary colors (red, blue, yellow), secondary colors (green, orange, purple), and the tertiary colors. On a color wheel, each secondary color is between the primary colors that are used to make it. 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.
 * [[image:http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/images/encyc_colorwheel.gif caption="Color wheel diagram"]] ||
 * Color wheel diagram ||
 * Value**: Is the lightness or darkness of a color. You can find the values of a color by making its tints and shades. Paintings that use only one color and the tints and shades of that color are called monochromatic (one=mono; color=chromatic).
 * Tints**: Are light values that are made by mixing a color with white. For example, pink is a tint of red, and light blue is a tint of blue.
 * Shades**: Are dark values that are made by mixing a color with black. Maroon is a shade of red, and navy is a shade of blue.
 * [[image:http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/images/encyc_balancediagram2.gif caption="Balance diagram"]] ||
 * Balance diagram ||
 * Analogous colors:** Are those colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related. Orange and yellow are an example of analogous colors. Mood: 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. Colors can also affect people in many ways, depending upon one’s age, gender, ethnic background or local climate. Certain colors or groups of colors tend to get a similar reaction from most people – the overall difference being in the shade or tones used.
 * [[image:http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/images/encyc_colordiagram.gif caption="Color diagram"]] ||
 * Color diagram ||
 * Natural colors:** 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. The system of natural colors is about the color opponency description of color vision. The system is usually used for matching colors (using printed reference cards), rather than mixing colors.The underlying physiological mechanisms involved in color opponency include the bipolar and ganglion cells in the retina, which process the signal originated by the retinal cones before it is sent to the brain.
 * Color effects**: Color psychology is complicated field of study and goes deep into the meaning of combining colors for a particular desired effect. When small dots of pure color are applied close together, the viewer's eyes mix the colors.
 * White and black:** According to the theories we could say that black is not a color because it is actually absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum and reflects none of them to the eyes, so in conclusion, black is teh absence of colors. Otherwise, we could say that white is a color that reflects all the colors of the visible light spectrum to the eyes.




 * Color and Feng Shui**: Feng Shui Colors help to choose the best colors to create a harmonious feng shui home. The feng shui colors have to be choose according to the energy you need. Color is one of the easiest ways to shift the energy in your space with feng shui. Each color is an expression of one of the Five Feng Shui Elements: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood. The elements are used in specific areas according to the feng shui energy map of your space, or Bagua.

**Color and me **

My favorite color is purple because it is very feminine and can be as warm or cool as it wants. This color is hired to represent melhancoly, lonelyness, enigma, creativity, fantasy and passivity, which are traits very characteristics of my personality.