Color Theory - Introduction to Art · •Knowledge of color theory increases our understanding and...
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Color Theory
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What do you know about color theory?
• Knowledge of color theory increases our understanding and appreciation of the different ways that artists use color
• How does color affect our lives?– What are things that are color coded?
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Three main components
• Hue
• Value
• Intensity
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Color is…What the eye sees when light is reflected off of
an object
Color Spectrum: arrangement of color in natural order: ROY G BIV
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Hue=Color (Green, Blue, Red)
• Hues have a circular order which we know as a color wheel.
• Color wheel is a device to help explain relationships between colors
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Make for your notes.
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Primary colors
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Primary Colors
Why are primary colors so unique?
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Why are Primary Colors so Unique?
• You can’t mix any other colors to create them.
• They are the first…hence… “Primary”.
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Piet Mondrian
“Victory Boogie Woogie”
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Boris H. Davis
“Spiderman”
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Roy Lichtenstein
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Secondary colors
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Secondary Colors
Remember this math problem…
1 + 1 = 2Primary (1) + Primary (1) = Secondary (2)
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Secondary Colors
These are colors you make when two primary colors are mixed together.
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Images of Secondary Color Paintings
Layne Cook
“Simply a Purple Vase” “Formally Yours”
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VanGogh
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Tertiary Colors 1 Primary + 2 Secondary------------------- 3 Tertiary
next to each other on the color wheel.
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Must be next to each other on the color wheel.
Blue-green
Blue-violet
Yellow-green
Red-violet
Red-orange
Yellow-orange
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Claude Monet“Impression Sunrise”
1873
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Edward Hopper“Nighthawks”Edward Hopper
“Nighthawks”
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Complementary Color Scheme
Colors that are opposite on the color wheel.
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Complementary colors make each other
vibrate.
Vincent Van Gogh“The Sower”
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Complementary Colors have high contrast against each
other.Kim Blair
“Three Limes on Red Plate”
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Analogous Color Scheme
Colors that are side by side on the color wheel.
Shanti Marie
“Water Geisha”
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Analogous colors go together - all part of the same color family (red, red-violet, violet)
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Warm & Cool Color Scheme
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Warm Colors vibrant, exciting, & creates feeling of excitement
Zang Wong“Heavenly Dance”
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Warm Colors
Advance towards you.
Georgia O’Keefe“Red Canna”
1924
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Warm Color Schemes
Ben Rotman
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Exit Slip:
Test retakes are Thursday!
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Cool Color Scheme
Creates feeling of calm, coolness and
sadness.
Birgitta
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Cool Color SchemeObjects recede from
Viewer
Vincent Van Gogh
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Cool Color Schemes
Ben Rotman
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Alanna Insomnia
Warm and Cool Color
Scheme
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The lightness and darkness of one color.
Monochromatic Color Scheme
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Monochromatic Mono = oneChromatic = color
Leanne Wildmuth“Untitled”
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Monochromatic Using tints & shades
Unknown Artist
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Tints
+ =White Hue Tint
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Shades
` + =Hue Black Shade
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Tints
Shade Unknown Artist