ELEMENTS OF DESIGN: COLOR WORKSHEET NAME



ELEMENTS OF DESIGN: COLOR WORKSHEET NAME: _________________________

1. Elements of design are “tools”. Just like the carpenter has a hammer and saw, the designer has the elements. The 4 elements of design are:

A. _______________ B. ________________ C. _______________ D. _______________

2. Color is a property of ______________________. A color spectrum is produced by a beam of light as it passes through a prism.

3. The color wheel system, based on three primary colors, is known as the __________________

System.

It is also called the _______________ System. Each color on the color wheel is a true _________.

4. _________________________ colors are

those that cannot be mixing two other

colors together (red, blue, yellow).

A _____________________ is color from a

biological source, which for the purposes

of housing and interior design can be

derived from synthetic or natural sources.

5. ___________________________ colors

are those that can be made by mixing two

primary colors together (orange, violet,

green).

6. ____________________ or intermediate colors are those made by mixing a primary with a secondary color. The primary color is always named first. The number of these colors can go on indefinitely.

7. ____________________________ colors include black, white, and brown, as well as all tints and shades of those colors. They can be made using 3 different methods:

A. ______________________________________________

B. ______________________________________________

C. ______________________________________________

8. Black is the absence of _____________________; white is the absence of _________________.

9. Neutrals include glass, stone such as: _______________________________________________

and metallics such as : __________________________________________________________.

10. _____________________________ colors are colors opposite each other on the color wheel.

11. __________________________ refers to the brightness or dullness of color. _______________

is another word for this.

The degree of brightness is called ____________________________.

To make a hue bright: __________________________________________________________

To make a hue dull: ____________________________________________________________

12. _____________________ is the lightness or darkness of a hue.

A ________________________ is a hue with black added.

A ________________________ is a hue with white added.

A ________________________ is a hue with some black and some white added.

13. Colors on rough textures appear ______________________.

14. When painting a wall, the color will dry _______________________.

15. Artificial incandescent or fluorescent ___________________may affect the appearance of color.

16. Color _______________________ or harmonies are groups of colors that work well together.

17. A color scheme can include: A. __________________________

B. ______________________________________________

C. ______________________________________________

D. ______________________________________________

18. Adjoining rooms may need to be _________________________________, if not matched.

19. __________________ is defined as a cultured appreciation for aesthetic quality or sensibility.

The designer uses this when deciding which hues, values, intensities, and neutrals go together.

20. A ____________________________ color scheme uses just one hue, along with its values,

intensities, and neutrals.

21. An _________________________ scheme includes 3 or more neighboring colors on the wheel.

22. A __________________________ scheme uses colors that are opposite each other on the wheel.

23. A ______________ ______________________ scheme uses two complementary sets of color.

24. A ____________ _______________________ scheme uses one hue, and the colors on either

side of its complement.

25. A __________________ scheme uses 3 colors equal distance from each other on the wheel.

26. A ___________________ scheme uses only whites, blacks, and browns. It can be “accented”

with small amounts of another hue if desired. If too much of the accent hue is used, however, it

becomes a monochromatic scheme.

27. A _____________ scheme is when the designer uses a theme to decorate a room rather than a prescribed color scheme. A theme would need to suit the personality and the preferences of the client. Examples of “themes” might include:

______________________________________________

28. List examples of items found in many rooms that can be excluded when determining color schemes:

_________________________________________________________________________

28. Warm colors are best used in rooms with a ___________________________ exposure. Warm colors include:

____________________________________________________________________

29. Cool colors are best used in rooms with a ___________________________ exposure. Cool colors include:

____________________________________________________________________

30. Light colors _______________________________, meaning they move “away from you”. That means they make a ceiling appear higher and a room appear larger.

31. Dark colors _______________________________, meaning they move “closer to you”. That means they make a ceiling seem lower and a room seem smaller.

32. Large or busy prints may make a room appear _____________________________.

33. Color schemes look better when just __________ color dominates.

Your dominant color should cover about _________ of the room area. An equal split between

dominant and subordinate colors is less pleasing.

34. Start your color scheme plan by evaluating what parts of the room cannot be _______________.

35. Color can cause ____________________________ effects, actually causing a change in the body. This might include:

____________________________________________________________

36. _____________________________________ effects of color are those sensed in the mind.

________________Elegance, humility, respect, reverence, stability, subtlety, timelessness, wisdom OR boredom, decay, decrepitude, dullness, dust, pollution, urban sprawl

________________ Reverence, purity, snow, peace, innocence, cleanliness, simplicity, security, humility, marriage, sterility, winter OR coldness, sterility, surrender, cowardice, fearfulness, winter, unimaginative

________________Modernity, power, sophistication, formality, elegance, wealth, mystery, style OR evil, death, fear, anonymity, anger, sadness, remorse, mourning, unhappiness, mystery

________________ Passion, strength, energy, fire, love, sex, excitement, speed, heat, leadership, masculinity, power OR danger, fire, gaudiness, blood, war, anger, revolution, radicalism, aggression, stop

________________ Seas, skies, peace, unity, harmony, tranquility, calmness, coolness, confidence, water, ice, loyalty, conservatism, dependability, cleanliness, technology, winter OR depression, coldness, idealism, obscenity, ice, tackiness, winter

________________ Nature, spring, fertility, youth, environment, wealth, money (US), good luck, vigor, generosity, go, grass OR aggression, inexperience, envy, misfortune, jealousy, money, illness, greed

________________ Sunlight, joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, wealth (gold), summer, hope, air OR cowardice, illness (quarantine), hazards, dishonesty, avarice, sissification, weakness

_________________Sensuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, ceremony, mystery, wisdom, enlightenment OR arrogance, flamboyance, gaudiness, mourning, profanity, exaggeration

_________________Buddhism, energy, balance, heat, fire, enthusiasm, flamboyance, playfulness OR Aggression, arrogance, flamboyance, gaudiness, over-emotion, warning, danger, fire

__________________Calm, depth, natural organisms, nature, richness, rusticism, stability, tradition OR boorishness, dirt, dullness, filth, heaviness, poverty, roughness

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