Color Bullet Points:
Hue vs. Warm and Cool:
The qualities of pigments are not the same as color.
Must understand quality of pigments, only gained through experience
Ways to lower intensity:
add white (lowers the intensity while bring up the value of the color)
add black (lowers the intensity while bring down the value of the color)
add white + black, (gray)
add complement
add split complement
Whenever you mix a warm and cool you always get a neutral , Complements = most neutral mixtures. Split Complement mixtures (red+ yellow green, Blue + Yellow/Oraneg, Violet + Yellow Green etc.) are neutral but not as neutral as complement mixtures
19th century yarn winders used high intense colored yarns, but it appeared gray when wound because the colors where seen in small amounts. This was the result of optical mixing, not physical mixing like when you mix colors of the palette. Different type of neutral made when colors are physically mixed vs when colors are optically mixed.
When intense colors are seen in small amounts next to each other they optically produce a gray .
When seen in large amounts next to each other produce a simultaneous contrast.
When looking for the right mixture, analyze what you are looking at and look for the relationships.
Strict color limitations can result in more clarity and variety in shape organization and rhythmical patterns because there are fewer things left to exploit.
Having limitation can make you ultimately create things you may not have otherwise even considered. Limitations do not impede on your creativity.
The variations between the extremes helps mediate between the extremes in color organization
Van Gogh used large areas of analogous colors with a few small areas of complementary colors
the movement and response (trial and error) within the process of painting, rather than a pre-planned idea before starting is an approach used by most. The image may start with a certain color strategy, but overall stays open to change and alteration when called for.
“If you don’t know what color to put down, put down a color and then respond to it, then respond to the next color and so on”- Matisse