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subtractive
color
Subtractive
color adds all of the colors together to make black.
ex.
White paper becomes darker as colors are mixed on it. If we dump
every paint we have on the paper, we will get something resembling
black.
The
color mixtures are what you would expect.
ex.
Yellow and red make orange.
Examples
of subtractive color:
- computer
printouts
- photographic
prints
- most fine
art excluding those pieces that contain light sources such as
neon sculpture
- virtually
any object that we see which doesn't produce light itself.
additive
color
Additive
color adds all of the colors together to make white.
ex.
Sunlight (white light) is broken into different colors when it passes
through a prism. When the light is absent, darkness (black) is the
result.
The
color mixtures are not what you would expect.
ex.
Green and red make yellow.
Examples
of additive color:
- television
and computer monitor images
- rainbows
- light shows
- fireworks
- any light
that comes directly to our eye from a light source
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