Color+Vocabulary

In english are idioms that uses color to express their meaning. Some examples of they are: - The red carpet: special honours for a special or important person. - The black market: the market not controlled by the government. - Red tape: complicated official procedures and forms. - The green light: the OK to start something. - Out of the blue: by surprise, unexpectedly. - A white lie: something that is not true but causes no harm. - Green with envy: jealous of someone else's good fortune. - In black and white: very clear and easy to understand. - In the black: having money. - To feel blue: to feel sad. - Be in the red: owing money, in debt.

Others definition that we need to have clear are:
 * Color: effect produced on the eye and its associated nerves by light waves of different wavelength or frequency. Light transmitted from an object to the eye stimulates the different color cones of the retina, thus making possible perception of various colors in the object.
 * Color wheel: shows the primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary colors. It also shows the relationships between complementary colors across from each other on the color wheel,
 * Value: refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Colors mixed with white are called tints. Colors mixed with black are called shades.
 * Analogous Colors: are colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel. They tend to look pleasant together because they are closely related.
 * Mood: Colors are often associated with moods. For example, we say "green with envy," "a blue mood."
 * Natural color: atists use colors to create a variety of desired effects. When an artist paints a scene or objects realistically, colors are used in imitation of the things being painted.
 * Color effects: This are the different effects that the painter use with the colors to transmit his artistic expression.
 * Black and White: The answer to the question - "Are black and white colors?" **-** is one of the most debated issues about color. Ask a scientist and you'll get a reply based on physics: “Black is not a color, white is a color.” Ask an artist or a child with crayons and you'll get another: “Black is a color, white is not a color.” But don´t exist a right answer to that question.
 * Color and Feng Shui: This are the relation between the colors and their meaning in the Feng Shui, this based in the color wheel and the separation between cool and warms colors. The cool colors are related to the Yin and the warms colors are related to the Yang.