Color

Today’s discussion will cover color within artworks and how color is interpreted by a viewer.

 

 

Color Bar. PhotoShop. Mat Lasky

Primary Colors

 

Creative Commons Attribution Wikipedia. Color Wheels. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Colors. 2001

 

Primary colors come in two forms: Additive Color Systems and Subtractive Color Systems.

· Additive color systemsprimary colors consist of Red, Green, and Blue. This is produced by the overlapping of the primary colors produced by light. When all three primaries combine, you create white light.

· Subtractive Color Systems primary colors consist of Red, Yellow, and Blue orCyan, magenta, and Yellow. The color wheel as most people know it. This is created by the way light reflects the color we see, and absorbs the remaining colors.

 

 

 

Hue



 

 

Hues. PhotoShop. Mat Lasky

A Hue in simplest terms is a name that classifies a color. I.e. Blue, Green, or even Blue-Green.

Warm / Cool Color

Warms and Cools. PhotoShop. Mat Lasky

· Warm colors are: Red, Red-Orange, Orange, Yellow-Orange and yellow. They are known as warm because they resemble things in real life such as: Red=fire , Orange and Yellow=The Sun. The viewer relates to the warm feeling.

· Cool Colors are: Violet, Blue-Violet, Blue, Blue-Green and Green. These are called cool because they resemble real life aspects such as: Blue=water/ice/snow , Violet= cold of night. The viewer relates to a cooler feeling.