VOCABULARY OF COLOURS

Color: is and basic element of Iight language it is a light impression that arrives our eyes to the eyes wich send the information to the brain.
Sustractive mixture: happens when we mix all the colours, or the three primary in equal parts, together and we get black as a result of the mixture.
Primary colours: they are the ones that cannot be obtained by mixin any other colours. In subtractive colours they are: yellow, cyan and magenta.
Secondary colours: thay are the ones that are obtained from the mix of two primary colours. They are red, green and blue.
Colour Wheel: it is a round diagram in which the primary colours are arranged  as far as posible from each other and secundary colours, sometimes terciary, in between them. Warm and cold colours are in the oposite half of wheel, and complementary colours are in front of each other.
Solid colour: when Surface is filled in whit one single color with no hue, value or saturacion variations an with no other kind of infill.
Monochrome: it is an adjetive for an image, picture or drawing which has only one color range.
Polychrome: it is an adjetive an image, picture or drowing that has several colours.
Hue: also called tone or tint, it is the name of the color defined by its wavelenght.
Saturation: degree of purity of a colour. It is the saturaded it means that it is very pure and doesn´t have meny colours un its mix.
Value: sametimes called brightnees or luminosity, Is is the amount of black ar white that a colour has in its mix.
Pigments: a power that is mixed with a binder to give a paint, ink, etc. pingments came from plants, animals, vegetals, etc, and are usually given chemical treatments.
Binding médium or binder: an ingredient on Paint that makes adhere pigments together and to the surfe.
Paeltte / pallet: a flat piece of  wood, plastic, etc. Used by artista as a surface an which to mix their paints. Also the range of colours featuring a particular artista,painting. A restricted palette ocurs when we painting has been done only same colours.
Solvent: a liquid substance which is able to dissovle the paint, either for cleanin, thinnin, mixing or some particular step in an arttechinque.
Color harmony: it is an theoric area of colour that studies and deals abaut colour combinations.
Colour range: also called scale of colours. It is a numer of differen  colours which change, step by spet, from the fist to to the last one. Ranges con be leaded by variations of value, hue or saturation.
Warm range: it is a scale of colours that ha either mor yellow, more magenta, or both in its mixture. They express warmth, energy, youthness or proximity.
Cold / cool range: it is a scale of colours that has more cyan or blue in its mixture tan any other colour.They are set on one side of the colour Wheel and transmit the temperature sensation of coldness and distancion.
Contrast: it is a way of putting colours together so they look very different from each other. The contrast thet calls the attention the most is the one made aut with complementary colours.
Analogous colour: they are two or more colours thet are next to each other on the color Wheel and are closely related.
Complementary colours: they are pairs of colours which are located one in front of each other on the colour wheel. A complementary of a primary is formed by the mix of the other two primary in equal parts.
Gray scale: it is a set of colours which only any colours between black and white, it contains a scale of grays.