COLOUR

COLOUR

1. Colour forms part of the real world, nature and objects.

2. ADDITIVE BLEND OR COLOURED LIGHTS

   • The primary colours are red, blue-violet, and green.
   • The complementary colours produce a practically white or very bright grey colour when blended together
     • Red is the complementary colour of cyan.
     • • Green is the complementary colour of magenta.
     • Blue-violet is the complementary colour of yellow.
   • The secondary colours are yellow, cyan and magenta
     • Red + green = yellow
     • Green + blue-violet = cyan
     • Red + blue-violet =magenta

3. COLOUR PERCEPCION

   • Depending on its nature and properties, the chemical composition of the surfaces of objects absorbs or reflects electromagnetic waves
     • When a body is yellow...
     • When a body looks white...
     • When a body is red...
     • When a body looks black...

4. SUBTRACTIVE BLEND OR COLOURED PIGMENTS

   • Cyan, magenta and yellow are the primary colours.
   • Complementary colours produce the colour black
     • Blue-violet is the complementary colour of yellow.
     • Green is the complementary colour of magenta.
     • Red is the complementary colour of cyan.
   • Secodary colour are blue-violet, green, and red
     • Yellow + cyan = green
     • • Magenta + yellow = red
     • • Cyan + magenta = blue-violet

5. QUALITIES OR PROPERTIES OF COLOUR

   • Tone, value and saturation are the qualities or properties of colour
   • Tone
   • Value
   • Saturation

6. THE COLOUR WHEEL

7. COOL AND WARM COLOUR PALETTES

   • Groups of colours that have a relationship between each other in the colour wheel

8. CREATING COLOUR MIXTURES

   • Colour harmony
     • Combination of colours that produces attractive and balanced colour effects
   • Colour contrast
     • Is produced when the colours in a composition

9. COLOUR CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS

   • Hickethier's system
   • Ostwald system

10. SYMBOLISM OF COLOUR

    • Black
      • Represents evil, mystery or making an error, and elegance
    • Red
      • Means, ambitius, materialistic temperament, and simbolyses, blood, fire, warmth, revolution, happiness, action, passion, strength, conflict, destruc- tion and drive
    • Yellow
      • Represents rage, cowardliness, power, and action
    • White
      • Symbolises the absolute, unity, innocence, peace or surrender
    • Green
      • Is for an intelligent, social people and symbolises kindness and the spring. It means reality, hope, reasoning, logic and youth
    • Blue
      • Symbolises intangible depth and cold. Is asociated with green. Infinity, dreams and what is truly marvellous all reflect this colour. Blue also symbolises knowledge, friendship, peace and quiet, calm, eternal truth and immortality or purity.
    • Violet
      • Means virtue, lucidity and reflection

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