KNOWING YOUR COLOURS

KNOWING YOUR COLOURS

As humans, we are most times inspired by the colors we see around us because they are one of the greatest gifts of nature.

 Most often times, these colors inspire us to bring out the creative ingenuity in us which we sometimes capture through brilliant paintings.

Colors may seem a little bit easy to understand, but really thinking about it can lead to many more complex thoughts than you’d imagined. That’s why it is essential to understand the basics of color and color theory.

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PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY COLORS

PRIMARY COLORS

At the top of any color structure are the primary colors. Primary colors are the original parents of all the future generations of colors. They are the root of every other color. Primary colors act as the building blocks for the formation of all other colors.

They are the three pigment colors that can not be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors. All other colors are derived from these three colors. The traditional primaries as they are presented in art and color theory are:

• Red
• Yellow
• Blue

SECONDARY COLORS

The mixture of two primary colors gives birth to a secondary color. Secondary colors are achieved specifically by using equal parts of primary colors I.e. you will need to have just as much of one color as the other to achieve  the true look of a secondary color. Secondary colors are well referred to as the children of the three primary colors.

The three secondary colors are:

*Yellow + Red = Orange

*Red + Blue = Purple

*Blue + Yellow = Green

That is to say, the three secondary colors are Orange, Green, and Purple.

TERTIARY COLORS

The mixture of a primary color with a secondary color will give birth to a tertiary color. This happens because when a primary color is mixed with a secondary color, it opens up many different shades of a particular color.

Tertiary colors can well be said to be the grand children of primary colors. The six major tertiary colors are derived by mixing:

·       Orange + Red = Vermilion

·       Red + Purple = Magenta

·       Purple + Blue = Violet

·       Blue + Green = Teal

·       Green + Yellow =Chartreuse

·       Yellow + Orange = Amber

That is to say, the six major tertiary colors are: Vermilion, Magenta, Teal, Violet, Amber, and Chartreuse.

WARM COLORS

·       Red

·   Yellow

·   Orange

Warm colors are those colors that tend to advance in space and can be overwhelming. These include colors like red, yellow and orange.

These colors evoke warmth because they remind us of things like the sun or fire. Colors have a way of influencing our emotions; they can make us happy, sad, angry, excited and all sorts of other emotions, both from their association with other things and just for the way they appear all on their own.

Here are some of the emotional effects that warm colors have on us.

RED

This is the color of drama and passion. Red is known to be the color that attracts the most attention and is associated with strong emotions such as love and anger. This color is universally recognized as a color that signifies danger, courage, strength, and power.

YELLOW

This is the color of optimism. Yellow is known to be a compelling color that conveys youthful and fresh energy. This color of sunshine is uplifting and illuYellow is a color that grabs attention because the eye sees yellow first before any other color.

minating. Its brightness is associated with success and confidence. 

ORANGE

This is the color of encouragement. It is believed that the combination of yellow and red makes orange a color that conveys excitement, warmth and enthusiasm. Orange is known as a color of the extroverts because it is social and inviting. It exudes happiness and joy by making you feel free and limitless.

CHROMATIC CIRCLE:

Chromatic circle is said to be the circular representation of colors. In a chromatic circle, colors are ordered in a rainbow sequence, the circle often being closed by a transition from red to purple via magenta.

 On the other hand, a color circle is an abstract illustration of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors.

HOW TO MAKE THE GRAY COLOR

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HOW TO MAKE THE GRAY 

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We could at some point want to know how to make the color gray, either out of curiosity, or that we are doing a DIY on something, or we would like to get a wonderful gray color, whatever it is, we know that there are different combinations that we can do to Get the gray we want.

Combinations in equal proportions we can do to get a lovely gray color-

1.-Orange with Blue

2.-Yellow, blue and red

3.-Purple and yellow

4.-Black and white

5.-Green and red

Let's make these combinations and experience the wonderful feeling that makes this DIY at home

Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism

Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism

Is color just a physiological reaction, a sensation resulting from different wave lengths of light on receptors in our eyes? Does color have an effect on our feelings? The phenomenon of color is examined in extraordinary new ways in John Gage's latest book. His pioneering study is informed by the conviction that color is a contingent, historical occurrence whose meaning, like language, lies in the particular contexts in which it is experienced and interpreted.

Color and Meaning

Gage covers topics as diverse as the optical mixing techniques implicit in mosaic; medieval color-symbolism; the equipment of the manuscript illuminator's workshop, the color languages and color practices of Latin America at the time of the Spanish Conquest; the earliest history of the prism; and the color ideas of Goethe and Runge, Blake and Turner, Seurat and Matisse.

From the perspective of the history of science, Gage considers the bearing of Newton's optical discoveries on painting, the chemist Chevreul's contact with painters and the growing interest of experimental psychologists in the topic of color in the late nineteenth century, particularly in relation to synaesthesia.

He includes an invaluable overview of the twentieth-century literature that bears on the historical interpretation of color in art. Gage's explorations further extend the concepts he addressed in his prize-winning book, Color and Culture.

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