Understanding colors and values
In any artwork there is color. They may be as simple as black and white, but even then there is are different ranges of values in the blacks and whites. There are the basic colors such as Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. The basic colors can be mixed and made different shades to make it appear to be a different color as well creating an endless possibility of colors. The value of colors is regarded to as the relative lightness or darkness of a color. The value creates contrasts in an image.