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The Color Circle and Color Systems. Why the Color Wheel Why a Color System?. Helps humans organize the world Gives order to spectral hues Permits us to isolate one Hue Assists us in formulating relationships between Hues - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Color Circleand
Color Systems
Why the Color WheelWhy a Color System?
• Helps humans organize the world• Gives order to spectral hues• Permits us to isolate one Hue• Assists us in formulating relationships
between Hues• Reveals gradual change and process of
how two hues can create a third color
Color Discovery….
• Lightness & Darkness• RED is #1!• Primitive human interaction w. Nature
Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, & Brown
• Philosophical, then Empirical studies
Yellow - Earth Blue - Sky
Green - Water Red - Fire
Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides….
Ch.1, 1 – 4:30Ch.5, 27 – 37Ch.7, 43 – 46Ch.10, 1:13:00 – 1:26:30
Pythagoras-500b.c.- a Greek mathematician, natural philosopher & mystic…believed Colors sit on surface, emission from eyes
Aristotle-384-322b.c. colors come from B &W
Leone Battista Alberti-1404-1472 (Renaissance)- an Italian architect, author, poet, linguist, philosopher, priest, cryptographer….saw Color as dependent on Light. The 4 elements associated with 4 colors.
Pythagoras ~550BC Aristotle ~350BC
More Color Theorists….
• Frances Bacon (1561-1626)-empirical studies, scientific experimentation
• Rene Descartes (1596-1650)-light reflection
• Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)-color physics
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German Polymath…opposed Newton’s rigid, scientific reports on color…an engager, one who observed color, embracing the phenomena, rather than classifying analytical data.
Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe thought that colour arose at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these colored edges overlap.
Color Wheel creationsbased on the
subtractive system…
Goethe’s Color Circle:3 subtractive primaries & 3 secondary hues,
placement determined by color opposition
Moses Harris’ Circle: Indicates each Hue + Tints and Shades
The Munsell Color Tree: Three Properties of Color in 3-dimensions
(Hue, Value, Intensity)
Albert H. Munsell Tree
The Traditional 12pt. Color Wheel
Features of the 12 point Subtractive Color Wheel
Feature 1:Twelve Hues – 3 primary,3 secondary, 6 tertiary
3 primaries (RYB)
3 secondaries (GVO)made from two Primaries
Remaining Hues 6 tertiaries:(YO, YG, BG, BV, RV, RO)made from One Primary + One Secondary Color
DETAILS on Feature 1 Hue Contrast
Black & White
Green, Violet, Orange
Red, Yellow, Blue
DETAILS on Feature 1Value Contrast
Neutrals or Achromatic Colors (Black, White, Gray, i.e. Colors with no detectable Hue) can be seen as Hue effectors. Color variations are made from a combination of Neutrals and Hues.
-2 halves of the color circle: WARM & COOL-Warm, saturated, light value hues are "active" and visually advance. -Cool, low saturated, dark value hues are "passive" and visually recede.
Feature 2:Temperature
Hue Relationships on the Color Circle
Feature 3:Color Relationships – families/harmoniesVS. color opposites
A. Simple Color Families / Harmonies
Analogous Harmony (family)
Analogous Harmony using R, RO, RV as well as tints, shades and/or tones
B. Contrasting or Opposing Harmonies /
Families
Complementary or Dyad Harmony
Cool / Warm Harmony
Double Complement Harmony
Double Complement Harmony based on
RV-YG and R-G, plus tints, shades, tones
Split Complement Harmony
Split Complement Line Study based on B & RO-YO
C. Balanced Color Harmonies
Triadic Harmonies
Primary TriadHarmony
SecondaryTriad
Harmony
Color Harmony based on Secondary Triad, as well as tints, tones, and/or
shades.
Tetrad Harmony
Another Tetrad Harmony
GROUP PROJECT: Simulated Transparency
• Intro. Mini Colleges
• Due Next week: 2 mini collages & bring color-aid paper & exacto knife for cont’d work
on Mini Colleges etc.
Discuss Colorblind Painter Write-up Requirements…
OK Go!
This Too Shall Pass
Rube Goldberg Machine (also inspired by The Way Things Go…)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w