Have you ever thought about what colors your cat actually sees? Or have you ever wondered if they have a favorite color? Maybe you have found yourself in the pet isle at your favorite store, staring at all of the cat toys, wondering which color they would like the most. They might enjoy the bright […]
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If there’s one nearly universal truth, it’s that most people hate insects. All summer long, people spend their time outdoors swatting mosquitoes, crushing ants and dodging wasps and yellow jackets. When people are ranting and raving about these six-legged menaces, though, they almost never mean butterflies. Butterflies are insects just like ants, mosquitoes, beetles and
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Traditional and digital artists alike deal with color in similar ways. Both types of artists understand three sets of colors: primary, secondary and tertiary. Combining individual colors from these three sets gives us just about every color our eyes can see. Those colors can be further manipulated by adding gray, white or black, and by
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Primary and secondary colors are things we learned about in grade school. Many of us can still remember the lesson on red, yellow and blue. We learned that they are the primary colors. But wait. Yellow isn’t a primary color to a graphic artist designing CGI images. What gives? The relationships between primary, secondary and
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Colors might seem simple when you first look at them, but upon closer inspection, there are deeper depths and complexities to each hue and shade. If you want to understand everything about colors, it’s important to start at the beginning and break down the basics: primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. Primary colors are easy to
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Color is a curious thing. Different eyes see it different ways. Likewise, what we learned in grammar school art class about primary and secondary colors is open to differing definitions. One thing we can say for certain is that secondary colors are derived from primary colors. Understanding where secondary colors come from is important to
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Life was so simple when we were kids. For example, the art teacher in third grade drilled into our heads that the three primary colors are red, blue and yellow. We never questioned it. Why would we? The teacher knows everything. Or does she? Maybe not. The question of what constitutes primary colors is not
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Do women and men see color differently? There’s some emerging evidence that points to the idea that men and women actually have two different experiences when looking at the same color. Studies consistently show that women are able to identify more colors than men. When looking at the same scene, women tend to pick up on shades
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Color schemes are an important part of interior decorating and design. But did you know there is an actual science to creating color schemes? Graphic designers and decorators don’t just randomly pick colors they think will look good together in a particular space. Rather, they rely on a number of artistically developed color schemes generally
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Rectangular color schemes are wonderfully vibrant, but it is important to understand exactly how these special colors influence each other in order to use them properly. Rectangular color schemes use tetradic colors. Tetradic colors are simply two sets of complementary pairs of colors that are found opposite each other on the color wheel. These types
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