Color: Expressive Arts
Color: Expressive Arts 4-H MEMBER MANUAL • EM4771E C O L Suppose the whole world was like a black and white photograph—no colors, just shades of gray. How would your life be different? Do you think gray tomatoes and gray chocolate would taste the same? ❦ This manual may be used as Would a driver get a traffic ticket for going through a resource for the Expressive Arts a gray light? projects. It can help you: There’s no color without light. And just a little light ... think of new ways to do isn’t enough to show colors. When you wake up in things, a dark room at night, even if there’s enough light ... understand basic art for you to see the window, the door, the furniture, and so on, you can’t see what color anything is. principles, When you turn the light on, all the colors seem to ... understand cultural values, turn on, too. This is because color is reflected light. ... develop a career in art and Different pigments reflect different parts of the light, which human eyes see as different colors. crafts, ... develop a lifetime hobby, There are hundreds of names for hundreds of ... enjoy beauty in your colors—like carmine, salmon, mauve, ecru, cobalt, taupe, viridian, ocher, cyan, etc. Sometimes it’s hard surroundings, to tell exactly what they mean. To make “color lan- ... develop your own ideas guage” easier to understand, people have without the help of anyone else, worked out ways of describing colors in terms of just three qualities: hue, value, and intensity.
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