Blue is such a pretty color, I wish I knew more about it!
Blue is my favorite color! It's one of only three primary colors!
What are the three primary colors?
They are red, green and blue! Blue though, lies between violet and green on the visible spectrum of light!
Oh like a rainbow! I see! I love seeing rainbows and pointing out each individual color.
Exactly! I also thought was interesting that most blues actually contain a slight bit of other colors! Like azure contains green and ultramarine contains a bit of violet.
That's awesome. I used to spend hours mixing my paints together as a kid to make new shades.
Me too! I recently read that the sky and deep blue sea only appear blue due to an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering! My mind was blown!
Mine is too! I actually thought the water and the sky were the color blue! Wow!
An optical effect called Tyndall scattering explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective.
Blue has been an important colour in art and decoration since ancient times. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used in ancient Egypt for jewellery and ornament and later, in the Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine, the most expensive of all pigments. In the eighth century Chinese artists used cobalt blue to colour fine blue and white porcelain. In the Middle Ages, European artists used
Green
Green is the color between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue, which are mixed in different combinations to create all other colors. By far