COLOUR

COLOUR

1. Mixtures

   • Harmony
     • It is a combination of colours that produces attractive and balanced colour effects
   • Contrast
     • It is produced when the colours in a composition do not have anything in common

2. Forms part of the real world, nature and objects

   • Objects reflect when light shines on them. Eyes take in the sensations produced by colours and transmit them to the brain. It encodes them and makes us perceive the colours.

3. Newton proved that light is the unit and colour is a part of it

4. Types

   • Primary colours (RGB)
     • Blue-violet
     • Green
     • Red
   • Secondary colours
     • Yellow
     • Cyan
     • Magenta
   • Complementary colours
     • Combining each primary colour with a secondary one creates them

5. Perception

   • The surfaces of objects absorbs or reflects colours. Absorbed colours disappear on the object while the colours that we see are the colours that the objects reflect because they do not absorb them.

6. Properties

   • Tone
     • It is the specific name or attribute given to a colour that makes it distinct
   • Value
     • It refers to the amount of white or black colour found in its composition
   • Saturation
     • It indicates colour purity

7. Colour wheel

8. Cool and warm colours palette

   • Cool
     • Formed by blues, purples and greens
   • Warm
     • Formed by red, orange and yellow

9. Classification systems

   • Hickethier's system
     • It is based on a figure standing on a vertex that contains the colour black at the opposite end, at the top, is white
   • Ostwald system
     • It recognises four primary and four secondary colours and differentiates between 24 tones for all of them, which are organised on a colour wheel at their maximum saturations.

10. Simbolism of colour

    • White
      • It represents peace or surrender
    • Black
      • It represents evil, mystery or making an error
    • Yellow
      • It represents envy, rage and cowardliness.
    • Red
      • It is represents an extroverted personality, ambi-tious, materialistic temperament
    • Green
      • It is associated with intelligent, social people and symbolises kindness and the spring
    • Blue and violet
      • It is the colour of virtue, lucidity and reflection

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