color

1. 2015-08-13 at 6:04 PM UTC

   #41
   Iron John Houston

   I don't know how to make paint. :(

   
   Paint is made by mixing a pigment, such as white lead or cadmium, or ocher, with an emulsion such as linseed oil or egg yolk, or tree sap.
2. 2015-08-13 at 6:05 PM UTC

   #42
   Iron John Houston

   I can't believe I'm actually wading into this thread but paint works by reflecting the range of light we consider to be that paint's color. Our sensation of "redness" is more directly caused by the property of the light reflected off the paint than from the paint itself (you can produce red light without pigment, for example) hence it makes more sense to describe "colors", in absence of a medium, as light as opposed pigment.

   
   
   I took visual art in school, not science.
3. 2015-08-13 at 6:17 PM UTC

   #43
   

   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support

   I took visual art in school, not science.

   
   
   Well there's your problem. It's good to know however that white light, is light in the entire spectrum, AKA all colors. Therefore when we use a prism to split the light into it's constituents we see a rainbow.
4. 2015-08-13 at 6:29 PM UTC

   #44
   arthur treacher African Astronaut
   The color black in art is different than the color black in science
   
   I took a few art classes, but I suck at it. I only did it because my aunt was an artist, and it was free
5. 2021-01-21 at 5:22 AM UTC

   #45
   

   livingelegy motherfucker [my polyoicous forward graciousness]
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