1. Introduction to Color

2. Look at this picture. What colors do you see
Look at this picture. What colors do you see? List the three colors you think are most easily visible in this painting.
Sunflower picture: Reasonable responses include blue, yellow, green, brown, and beige.

3. How about this one. What colors do you see here
How about this one? What colors do you see here? List the three colors you think the artist used most in this painting.
Oceanscape: Reasonable responses include any combination of red, blue, white, or green.

4. What is color?
Color is the aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of light being reflected or emitted by them.
To see color, you have to have light. When light shines on an object some colors bounce off the object and others are absorbed by it. Our eyes only see the colors that are bounced off or reflected.

5. Light Gives Us the Color of the Rainbow
White light from the entire visible portion of the spectrum, if broken into its component parts, divides into the colors of the rainbow. A prism will separate white light into its component (rainbow) parts. When it rains and the sun is shining, the water acts like a  prism by splitting white sunlight into the shorter wavelengths (relatively): violet, blue, green, followed by the longer wavelengths: yellow, orange, and red. Each time you see a rainbow, note the colors and their order of appearance within the rainbow. Every rainbow will have the same colors, presented in the same order from shorter to longer wavelengths.

6. How do we see color? Let’s look at the science behind it!
Color is a way that we describe an object based on the way that it reflects or emits light.
Your eye can see different colors because a part of your eye called the retina is sensitive to different wavelengths of light.
Humans are what is called "trichromats," meaning our retinas have three different kinds of cells that can receive color. Those cells are called cones.
Let’s look at the science behind it!

7. The Color Wheel
A color circle, based on red, yellow and blue, is traditional in the field of art. Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular diagram of colors in Since then, scientists and artists have studied and designed numerous variations of this concept.
Differences of opinion about the validity of one format over another continue to provoke debate. In reality, any color circle or color wheel which presents a logically arranged sequence of pure hues has merit.

9. Primary Colors: Red, yellow and blue In traditional color theory (used in paint and pigments), primary colors are the 3 pigment colors that can not be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors. All other colors are derived from these 3 hues. 

10. Secondary Colors: Green, orange and purple These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors.

11. Mix the colors together demonstration ******

13. Tertiary Colors
These are the colors formed by mixing a primary and a secondary color. 

14. Complimentary Colors
Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those particular two colors. Like the contrast between black and white.
Complementary colors are located directly across from each other on the color wheel.

15. Analogous Colors
Analogous colors are groups of three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel

16. What is a Hue?
What's the difference between a Hue and a Color? Most people, even the pros, get confused about this. Basically they mean the same thing and can be used interchangeably.
The words are a general terms to describe the color family on the Basic Color Wheel that your swatch is rooted in. They indicate the root of the variations we see. To make things simpler, think of a Hue as one of the twelve colors on the mixing wheel.
Burgundy = the root Color or Hue is RED
Navy = the root Color or Hue is BLUE
Rust = the root Color or Hue is ORANGE

17. Cool VS. Warm Colors

18. Warm Colors
Warms colors appear to be energetic and more stimulating.

19. Cool Colors
Cool colors appear to be calm and relaxing

20. Ways To Alter Colors
Every individual color on the Basic Color Wheel can be altered in three ways by 
Tinting
Shading
Toning.

21. Tinting
A Tint is sometimes called a Pastel. Basically it's simply any color with white added.

22. Shading
A Shade is simply any color with black added.

23. Tint VS. Shade

24. Toning
A Tone is created by adding both White and Black which is grey. Any color that is "greyed down" is considered a Tone.

25. Monochromatic
Monochromatic colors are all the colors (tints, tones, and shades) of a single hue.

26. Polychromatic
Two or more colors; multicolored.

27. Achromatic
Means without color.

28. Neutral Colors
Neutral colors help to put the focus on other colors or serve to tone down colors that might otherwise be overpowering on their own.
To some extent blacks, browns, tans, golds, and beige colors are considered warm.
While white, ivory, silver, and gray are somewhat cooler colors

29.  The Psychology and meaning of Certain Colors
What is it about the rainbow that gives most people a sense of happiness? Sure, it signifies the calm after a storm, but the colors themselves have an effect on our minds.
There is a reason why people prefer certain colors over others. This preference says volumes about our personalities, because each color has an association with a reaction our brain has when we internalize it.
Color psychology is a well-known, yet less explored branch of the study of how our brain perceives what it visualizes. As far as scientific research goes, there is not much to work with. However, the impact that colors have on our brains is used to manipulate our decision making by multiple facets of society