The substance or powder that makes up the color of paint.

This designates the common name of a color and indicates its position in the spectrum or the color circle. This is considered the purest form of color, with no white, black, or grey added.

It refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. It indicates the quality of light reflected. Darker values are produced by adding black, while lighter colors are produced by adding white.

Vivid color is high, a dull color is low.

A color that has been grayed or reduced in intensity by mixture with a complementary color.

The color of an object as seen by the eye (green grass, blue sky, red fire, etc.)

Colors chosen by the artist without regard to the natural appearance of the object portrayed.

Colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel.

Two colors which are directly opposite each other on the color wheel.

Red, orange and yellow, usually associated with sun or fire.

Blue, green, violet, or blue-green; associated with air, sky and water.

Measurable distances on a surface which show length and width but lack any illusion of thickness or depth.

A sensation of space that seems to have length, width, and height to create visual or real depth.

A highly imaginative treatment of forms that gives a sense of intervals of time or motion.

A pictorial concept in which the illusion of space has the quality of endlessness found in the natural environment. The picture frame has the quality of a window through which one can see the endless recession of forms into space.

The illusion of deep space produced by aerial perspective, lightening values, softening contours, reducing value contrasts, and neutralizing colors in objects as they recede.

The visual illusion of apparent parallel lines meeting at a central point in infinite space.

Oriented at your eye level regardless of the viewer's position. If the viewer looks up, the horizon line is lower in a picture plane; if the viewer looks down, the line is higher in the picture plane; if they look straight ahead the line is in the mi

The point on the horizon line at which apparent parallel lines will converge.

Being neither perpendicular nor parallel to a line.

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