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Topic 2 COLOR THEORY

This document discusses color theory and provides information on various color-related topics in 3 sentences or less: It introduces color theory and lists subtopics including color dimensions, tints and shades, color neutrals, the color wheel, and color schemes. It then discusses these subtopics in more detail, explaining concepts like hue, intensity, and value; primary, secondary, and tertiary colors; monochromatic, complementary, and analogous color schemes; and different color pickers like RGB, CMYK, and Pantone. The document aims to help readers better understand color through examining its dimensions and relationships on the color wheel.

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Topic 2 COLOR THEORY

This document discusses color theory and provides information on various color-related topics in 3 sentences or less: It introduces color theory and lists subtopics including color dimensions, tints and shades, color neutrals, the color wheel, and color schemes. It then discusses these subtopics in more detail, explaining concepts like hue, intensity, and value; primary, secondary, and tertiary colors; monochromatic, complementary, and analogous color schemes; and different color pickers like RGB, CMYK, and Pantone. The document aims to help readers better understand color through examining its dimensions and relationships on the color wheel.

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Topic 2: Color Theory

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which


love color the most.”
— John Ruskin
Intended Learning Outcome

Sub Topics
• Appreciate Color theory
• Color Dimensions
• Examine Color
Dimensions • Tint and Shade
• Familiarize Color • Color Neutrals
Neutrals • The Color Wheel
• Understand the concepts • Primary Colors
of Color Wheel • Secondary Colors
• Recognize Different • Tertiary Colors
• Color Scheme • Color Schemes
• In 1672 Sir Isaac
Newton 1st represented
the relationship of colors
to one another in the
form of a circle after he
observed a beam of
sunlight passing through
a prism, producing a
rainbow
Color Can Evoke Emotion
• One hundred years later, Johann
Wolfgang van Goethe, a German writer
and scientist, studied how colors make
us feel
– He discovered that blue evoked quiet
moods and that red evoked cheerfulness
Bay Side, Helen Frankenthaler, 1967
The Golden Wall, Hans Hofmann, 1961
Haystack At Giverny, Claude Monet, 1891
The Scream,
Edvard Munch,
1893
Still Life, Tulips,
Emil Nolde, 1930
Voodoo, Judy Pfaff, 1981
The Old Guitarist,
Pablo Picasso, 1903
Blue, Orange, Red,
Mark Rothko, 1961
Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Self Portrait, Vincent van Gogh
Sunflowers,
Vincent van
Gogh, 1888
The Magic Flute,
Marc Chagall,
1966
Blumenstilleben St.
Jean Cap Ferrat,
Marc Chagall, 1956
At the Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892
Goldfish,
Henri Matisse, 1912
Woman with a Hat,
Henri Matisse,
1905
A Glimpse of
Notre-Dame in
the Late
Afternoon,
Henri Matisse,
1902
Cirebon Sawah, Gwen Shackleton, 2007
Where do we come from? What are we?
Where are we going?, Paul Gauguin, 1897
What is Color?
Color is what we see when light, striking an
object, is reflected back to the eye
– Learning color mixing and relationships will
allow you to utilize color in your work
effectively
– Color can be used to create specific visual
effects or to assign a mood to a piece
Color Dimensions

Color has three properties: Hue, Intensity, and Value


Hue – simply the name we assign to a color, i.e. Red, Blue,
etc.
Intensity – How bright or dull a color is, sometimes referred
to as saturation
Value – The lightness or darkness of a color
Tint and Shade

TINTS SHADES
Tints are lightened colors. Always Shades are darkened colors. Always
begin with white and add a bit of begin with the color and add just a bit
color to the white until the desired tint of black at a time to get the desired
is obtained. This is an example of a shade of a color. This is an example
value scale for the tints of blue. of a value scale for the shades
of blue.
Color Neutrals

The principles of color mixing let us describe a variety of


colors, but there are still many colors to explore. The
neutral colors contain equal parts of each of the three
primary colors. Black, white, gray and sometimes brown
are considered "neutral”.
The Color Wheel

• The color wheel fits together


like a puzzle - each color in
a specific place.
• Being familiar with the color
wheel not only helps you
mix colors when painting,
but in adding color to all
your art creations.
The Colour Wheel

If the ends of the spectrum are bent around a


colour wheel is formed:
The Colour Wheel

• Colours on the wheel can be


described using three
parameters:
1. Hue: degrees from 0˚ to 360˚
2. Saturation: brightness or
dullness
3. Value: lightness or darkness
(As suggested by Henry Albert Munsell in A Colour
Notation, 1905)
The Colour Wheel: Hue

• Hue or Spectral Colour is


represented as an angle.
• Primary Colours:
• 0˚ = Red
• 120˚ = Green
• 240˚ = Blue
• Secondary Colours:
• 60˚ = Yellow
• 180˚ = Cyan
• 300˚ = Magenta
The Colour Wheel: Saturation
• Saturation or Chroma is
the intensity of a colour.
• A highly saturated colour
is bright and appears
closer to the edge of the
wheel.
• A more unsaturated
colour is dull.
• A colour with no
saturation is achromatic
or in the grey scale.
The Colour Wheel: Value
"the quality by which
we distinguish a light
colour from a dark
one."
- Albert Henry Munsell
A Colour Notation 1905

Value represents the luminescent


contrast value between black
and white
The Colour Wheel: Value
The Colour Wheel: Value
Primary Colors

Colors from which all other


colors are made

• Red
• Yellow
• Blue
Secondary Colors

Colors that are created from


mixing equal amounts of a pair of
primary colors

• Orange
• Green
• Violet
Tertiary/ Intermediate Colors

Colors made from equal amounts of a


pair of primary and secondary colors

• Yellow-Green
• Yellow-Orange
• Blue-Green
• Blue-Violet
• Red-Violet
• Red-Orange
Color Scheme :
Systematic ways of selecting colors

• Monochromatic
• Complimentary
• Analogous
• Warm
• Cool
• Achromatic
• Chromatic Grays
Color Schemes: Monochromatic

Artist: Marc Chagall • Monochromatic - One Hue many


Title: Les Amants Sur Le Toit values of Tint and Shade
Color Schemes: Complimentary

Artist: Paul Cezanne • Complimentary: Colours that are


Title: La Montage Saint Victoire opposite on the wheel. High
Year: 1886-88 Contrast
Complementary
Colors
• Colors opposite
each other on the
color wheel
• Ex:
• Red & green
• Blue & orange
• Yellow & violet
Color Schemes: Analogous

Artist: Vincent van Gogh


Title: The Iris
• Analogous: A selection of
colours that are adjacent.
Year: 1889 Minimal contrast.
Analogous Colors
Three consecutive
colors on the color
wheel
Colour Schemes: Warm

Artist: Jan Vermeer Warm: First half of the wheel


Title: Girl Asleep at a Table give warmer colours. The
Year: 1657
colours of fire.
Colour Schemes: Warm

The colors found in fire and the sun. Warm


colors make objects look closer in a painting or
drawing.

This is an illustration of the use of


warm colors - reds, oranges and
yellows.
Colour Schemes: Cool

Artist: Pablo Picasso


Cool: Second half of the wheel
Title: Femme Allongée Lisant
gives cooler colours
Year: 1939
Color Schemes: Cool
The colors found in snow and ice and
tend to recede in a composition.

Note the cool color scheme in this painting (greens,


purples and blues).
Colour Schemes:
Achromatic, Chromatic Grays

Achromatic: Black and white Chromatic Grays: Also called


with all the grays in-between. neutral relief. Dull colours, low
contrast.
Colour Pickers & Choice of Media

• HSB, HLS, HSV


• RGB
• CMYK
• Others
– Lab
– PANTONE

Munsell’s notation wheel


Colour Pickers: HSB, HLS, HSV

• HSV
• Hue
• Saturation
• Value
• HSB (Same as HSV)
• Hue
• Saturation
• Brightness

• HLS
• Hue
• Lightness
• Saturation
Colour Pickers: RGB, CMYK

• RGB
• Red
• Green
• Blue
– Used in Video and
Computer graphics
– 3 Values in % or between
• 0-255

• CMYK
• Cyan
• Magenta
• Yellow
• K = Black
– Used for printing
Photoshop CS3 Picker

• Combines
HSB,
RGB,
CMYK,
Lab
(Luminance, Red/Green,
Yellow/Blue)
• Adobe
http://kuler.adobe.com/
Colour Pickers: PANTONE

• Standard for printing/fastion industry


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