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11-11-14
What is Color?
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11-12-14
What is a Color Wheel?
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11-17-14
What is a Color Scheme?
What are some examples of
Color Schemes?
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11-18-14
What are the
3 Properties of Color?
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11-19-14
What is tint, shade and tone?
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11-20-14
How do you create tints,
shades & tones in paint?
Step ONE:
Paint & Cut out Color Wheel
Step TWO:
Trace cut out lightly onto Sketchbook.
Step THREE:
Cut out “windows” in your Sketchbook
Step FOUR:
Poke a hole through the center of both.
Step FIVE:
Place a brad through the holes. Secure.
Final Product: Label outside.
COLOR
In art
An element of art
Has three properties:
(1) HUE
the color name, e.g., red, yellow, blue, etc.
(2) INTENSITY
The brightness and strength of a color
(3) VALUE
the lightness or darkness of a color
The visual (color) spectrum
is organized as a color wheel.
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The colors can divided into groups (or schemes).
Frank Stella
Franz Marc
Dale Chihuly
Warm and Cool Colors
Psychologically, warm colors are said to be stimulating and
passionate. Warm colors remind you of FIRE or the SUN.
Optically, warm colors generally appear to advance, coming
toward the viewer.
Cool colors are calming, unemphatic, depressive; and
optically, they generally appear to recede.
Cool colors remind you of WATER or ICE.
Picasso
O’Keefe
Matisse
Color Schemes:
Primary & Secondary (Triads / Triadic)
Triads form an equal-distant triangle. (3 colors in between)
Lichtenstein
Andy Warhol
Jasper Johns
Thiebaud
Thiebaud
Monochromatic
A single hue plus its tints, tones and shades
(think values of that color)
Henry Matisse
Dale Chihuly
Color Scheme:
Complementary
Colors opposite each other on the color wheel,
create High Contrast.
Van Gogh
Color Scheme:
Split Complementary
The combination of one hue plus, the hues on each
side of it’s complement.
Gauguin
Van Gogh
Color Scheme:
Analogous
Colors that sit side by side on the color wheel and
have a common hue. (3-5 colors)
Andy Goldsworthy
Claude Monet
O’Keefe
More color terms/concepts:
Color and mood
Realistic vs.
Arbitrary (Subjective)
or Symbolic Color
Pisarro
Paul Gauguin
Pablo Picasso
Van Gogh
Your Assignment 1 - Think about all of the samples you have seen and ways
that color can be utilized… it is one of the most powerful and
impactful elements in art.
2 - Subject matter, size and material are up to you…
Some possibilities an interior or exterior space with arbitrary color
a self portrait using color for mood
(think about distortion too)
an abstract piece exploring a color scheme
a still life or magnified view utlizing a color scheme
a surrealist work (based on dreams) using a
complementary palette