Color has been called the music of the visual arts Color is both art science.there is no purple in the natural spectrum of color the result (purple and violet). indigo blue green yellow orange red colors of the ranbow. the longest wavelenght is red the shortest is violet.

When light is totallly absored by a surface we see black.

Additive color is color in direct light.

Subtractive color is color in relation to pigment

Hue is the name by which we identify a color. hue is the basic color properties.

Complementary colors mixed together produce grays but complementary colors placed next to each other become not grayer but more intense.

the local color of an object is the color of its actual surface as opposed to the color that it appears to be when placed in colored surroundings.