Color has three main properties: hue, saturation, and value. Hue refers to the name of the color, such as red, yellow, or blue. Saturation refers to the purity of the hue, while value refers to the lightness or darkness of the hue. There are primary colors of red, yellow, and blue that can be mixed to create secondary colors. Color is created through either additive or subtractive mixing. Additive color involves light, while subtractive color involves pigments that absorb some light and reflect the rest. Texture includes actual textures as well as simulated textures found in materials like fabric, wood, and nature.

1. Color
 Vocabulary
o Primary and secondary colors
o Complimentary and analogous colors
o Warm and cool
o Saturated and desaturated/neutral colors
o Value, hue,saturation/intensity
o Subtractive and Additive color
 Light -- Additive Color
o All color is light because it is made of light -- either projected directly into your eye
(candle flame, monitor screen),or bounced off a surface (tabletop, mirrow, fur coat).
o There must be light for us to see color. A red shirt will not look red in the dark where
there is no light.
o The whiter the light, the more true the colors will be. A yellow light on a full color
painting will change the appearance of all the colors.
o A ray of white light passing through a prism separates into the hues seen in a rainbow
 Pigment -- Subtractive Color
o Surfaces absorb some light, and reflect back the rest. A red shirt absorbs all the light
except red, which it reflects back into your eye. When you work with PIGMENT, you are
painting with color that absorbs, or takes away,light. A black shirt or asphalt street is hot
because it absorbs all the light, reflecting back nothing.
Color has three properties...

2.  HUE -- the name of the colors. The primary hues are yellow, red, and blue. Secondary colors are
made by mixing two primaries. Intermediate colors are mixtures of a primary and adjacent
secondary color.
 SATURATION (aka intensity) -- the purity of the hue (also called "chroma").
 VALUE -- the lightness or darkness of hue.
Color Wheel
 Primary colors --3 main colors that all colors are made from Working with LIGHT, they are
Red, Green, Blue. When you add all 3 you get WHITE LIGHT
 Secondary colors -- created from combining two primary colors. Working with LIGHT, when
you put two lights together, you get a brighter light. Therefore the secondary colors are
BRIGHTER than the primary colors. They are Yellow (Red+Green), Cyan (Green+Blue),
Magenta (Blue+Red)
 Complimentary colors -- are opposite colors. Working with LIGHT, the compliment of Red =
Green+Blue (Cyan)
 Analgous colors --
 Warm colors -- from yellow to red to red-violet on the color wheel. In a painting, they seem to
advance or come forward.
 Cool colors -- from yellow-green through violet. In a painting, they seem to recede,or go back in
space.
 Neutral colors -- made by adding a complementary color (opposite on the color wheel) to a hue.
Neutralized hues are often called "tones".
Texture
 Includes actual and simulated texture, and textures in fabric, wood, metal, and nature.
 Sharp focus = Distinct details & well defined; Soft focus = indistinct details & blurry
References-
1) http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/element/form/form.htm
2) “DesignStudies”byManmeetSodhia,KalyaniPublisher