Colour

Colour

1. Primary Colours

   • There are three Primary colours: RED, YELLOW and BLUE (Fig 5.1). Primary colours cannot be created by mixing other colours.

2. The color has been studied for thousands of years

3. Tertiary Colours

   • Tertiary colors are combinations of primary and secondary colors.

4. Basically colours are divided into three groups.

   • -Primary colours -Secondary colours -Tertiary colours

5. The study of colour may be approached from any one of the following five angles:

   • -Physiologist -Chemist -Physicist -Psychologist -Artist

6. Munsell colour system

   • The Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions, hue, value ( lightness), and chroma (color purity or colorfulness). It was created by Professor Albert H. Munsell in the first decade of the 20th century.

7. Secondary Colours

   • A colour created by mixing two primary colours is called a secondary colour. For example: orange is a secondary colour which is created when the subtractive primary colours red and yellow are mixed together

8. Colour wheel

   • The Colour wheel is a useful pictorial representation of the spectrum of colours and can be used to simplify the understanding of the interaction of colours used in a painting.

9. Complementary colours

   • Complementary colours are those which are opposite each other on the colour wheel. For example, red is opposite green.