Color Theory

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Color Theory
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• 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.

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• 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

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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

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Bay Side, Helen Frankenthaler, 1967
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The Golden Wall, Hans Hofmann, 1961
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Haystack At Giverny, Claude Monet, 1891
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The Scream, Edvard Munch, 1893
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Still Life, Tulips, Emil Nolde, 1930
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Voodoo, Judy Pfaff, 1981
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The Old Guitarist, Pablo Picasso, 1903
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Blue, Orange, Red, Mark Rothko, 1961
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Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
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Self Portrait, Vincent van Gogh
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Sunflowers, Vincent van Gogh, 1888
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The Magic Flute, Marc Chagall, 1966
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Blumenstilleben St. Jean Cap Ferrat, Marc
Chagall, 1956
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At the Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892
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Goldfish, Henri Matisse, 1912
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Woman with a Hat, Henri Matisse, 1905
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A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon,
Henri Matisse, 1902
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Cirebon Sawah, Gwen Shackleton, 2007
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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we
going?, Paul Gauguin, 1897
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• Primary Colors
• Colors from
• which all other
• colors are made
• Red
• Yellow
• Blue

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• Secondary Colors
• Colors that are
• created from
• mixing equal
• amounts of a pair
• of primary colors
• Orange
• Green
• Violet

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• 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

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Neutral Colors

• 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.

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Tints

• Tints are lightened colors. Always begin with
  white and add a bit of color to the white until
  the desired tint is obtained. This is an example
  of a value scale for the tints
  of blue.

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Shades

• Shades are darkened colors. Always begin with
  the color and add just a bit of black at a time
  to get the desired shade of a color. This is an
  example of a value scale for the shades
  of blue.

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Color Schemes

• Color Schemes are a systematic way of using the
  color wheel to put colors together in your art
  work, putting together the clothes you wear,
  deciding what colors to paint your room..

monochromatic, complementary, analogous, warm and
cool.
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Monochromatic

• Mono means one, chroma means color
  monochromatic color schemes have only one color
  and its values. The following slide shows a
  painting done in a monochromatic color scheme.

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• This non-objective painting has a monochromatic
  color scheme - blue and the values (tints and
  shades) of blue.

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Complementary

• Complementary colors are opposite on the color
  wheel provided a high contrast - if you want to
  be noticed wear complementary colors!

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• This painting has complementary colors and their
  values - blues and oranges.

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Analogous

• The analogous color scheme is 3-5 colors adjacent
  to each other on the color wheel. This
  combination of colors provides very little
  contrast.

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• Analogous colors are illustrated here yellow,
  yellow-green, green and blue-green.

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Warm

• The colors found in fire and the sun. Warm
  colors make objects look closer in a painting or
  drawing.

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• This is an illustration of the use of warm colors
  - reds, oranges and yellows.

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Cool

• The colors found in snow and ice and tend to
  recede in a composition.

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• Note the cool color scheme in this painting
  (greens, purples and blues).

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• Complementary Colors
• Colors opposite each other on the color wheel
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• Red green
• Blue orange
• Yellow violet

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• Analogous Colors
• Three consecutive colors on the color wheel

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• Who is wearing a monochromatic shirt today?
• Are wearing mainly warm colors?
• Aare wearing mainly cool colors?
• Is anyone wearing a shirt that uses complementary
  colors or analogous colors?

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• Can you think of an example of complementary
  colors being used together?

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• Tint a color plus white
• Shade a color plus black
• Monochromatic one color in different tints and
  shades
• Neutral white, black, gray

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Complex Color Wheels

• Create a complex design that follows the basic
  format of a color wheel while showing the
  Primary,
• Secondary,
• and Intermediate colors
• and the various tones and shades
  of each
• You can take this assignment one step further by
  demonstrating your knowledge of complementary
  colors also