COLOUR

PIGMENTS are coloured powders that absorb or reflect parts of white light.

In SUBTRACTIVE MIXES, new colours are made taking away lights. Light is subtracted to create new colours.

The main features of colours are: 

HUE: 

Property that identifies a colour, and for which it is discernible as red, green, etc., It is dependent on its dominant wavelength and independent of intensity or lightness. It’s also called TONE.

VALUE: 

Property that describes how light or dark is the colour.

SATURATION: 

Purity of a colour. A colour is more saturated if is made of the mix of very few colours.