Was told it was a shade in an art class.
2007-07-23 21:40:48 · 8 answers · asked by ♆Şрhĩņxy - Lost In Time. 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Black is NOT a color. it was only contexted with the word 'color' because it can be seen in crayon boxes and paint jars. Can you find it on the color wheel? No. It can't be found there. Therefore, its not a color. And that includes white too. ^_^ In terms of science, the visible light has all the colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. In this color spectrum, it is said that when we see white, all the colors in the visible light are being REFLECTED. While black is the ABSORPTION of all this colors. That's why when you mix all the primary colors, you'll get black. ^_^
2007-07-23 23:30:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the 'Black' pigments are very dark colours {including gray}, that are used for black. Black is actually the absence of colours or light, so a true black colour could exist, but only at the boundary of Black holes or simialr.
2007-07-24 04:44:57 · answer #2 · answered by Pat 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
shades are the varying degrees of gray from white to black.. in reference to the black being the absence of color.. that only applies to light (in light, the primary colors are magenta cyan and green, combine all and you get white) , when working in color theory (where the primary colors are red, blue and yellow), black is the combination of all colors while white is the lack of color, shades of a color is when black is added to a pigment and when you add white, you get a tint. black is more well known as a color simply because it isnt pointed out in grade school the difference that are pointed out in color theory
2007-07-24 04:52:50 · answer #3 · answered by Terrius K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me, as a painter, black is NOT a colour.
It is used to darken ("cool") colours that would otherwise be too warm or too light.
P.S. You don't need ivory blak or whatever black on your palette: you can "manufacture" black shades with combinations of brown/green, brown/blue depending of what you need.
2007-07-24 05:05:20 · answer #4 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
cause it has the same property as a color like it has the same value as red that why red black work well together. but mostly laments abuse that term not the people that work with color
2007-07-24 08:50:59 · answer #5 · answered by joey b 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In art its still considered a color and also in screenprinting, black is concidered a color too.
shade is when you add black to (example) yellow and that color gets darker.
Tint is when you add white to another color to make it lighter
2007-07-24 04:43:58 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
So black is a shade of what colour exactly? LOL!!!
2007-07-24 04:43:54 · answer #7 · answered by missfattyfudgecake 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because that's what we were taught in Kindergarten
2007-07-24 18:05:59 · answer #8 · answered by >♥Cat♥< 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋