COLOURS

COLOURS

1. Form part of the real world, nature and objects. This element along with light marks our lives from dawn to dusk.

2. Newton successfully isolated a ray of white light. When he passed it through a glass prism, Newton discovered the ray became a spectrum of separate colours.

   • Light is the unit, and colour part of it

3. QUALITIES OR PROPERTIES

   • Tone
   • Value
   • Saturation

4. SUBTRACTIVE BLEND OR COLOURED PIGMENTS

   • Absorb or take away the light's energy.
     • Primary colours
     • Secondary colours
     • Complementary colours

5. ADDITIVE BLEND OR COLOURED LIGHTS

   • Among the different colours dispersed by light through the glass prism
     • Primary colours
     • Secondary colours
     • Complementary colours

6. COLOUR PERCEPTION

   • It depends on
     • Its nature and properties
     • The chemichal composition of the surface og objects absorv or reflec electromagnetic waves

7. THE COLOUR WHEEL

8. HOW TO OBTAIN TERCIARY COLOURS

9. COLOUR PALETTES

   • COLD
   • WARM

10. CREATING COLOUR MIXTURES

    • Harmony
      • Combination of colours that produces attractive and balanced colour effects
    • Contrast
      • Produced when the colours in a composition do not hanything in common with each other or any similarity

11. COLOUR CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS

    • Ostwald
    • Hickethier's

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