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The Color Circle and Color Systems

The Color Circle and Color Systems. Why the Color Wheel Why a Color System?. Helps humans organize the world Gives order to spectral hues Permits us to isolate one Hue Assists us in formulating relationships between Hues

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The Color Circle and Color Systems

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  1. The Color CircleandColor Systems

  2. Why the Color WheelWhy a Color System? • Helps humans organize the world • Gives order to spectral hues • Permits us to isolate one Hue • Assists us in formulating relationships between Hues • Reveals gradual change and process of how two hues can create a third color

  3. Color Discovery…. • Lightness & Darkness • RED is #1! • Primitive human interaction w. Nature Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, & Brown • Philosophical, then Empirical studies

  4. Yellow - Earth Blue - Sky Green - Water Red - Fire

  5. Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides…. Ch.1, 1 – 4:30 Ch.5, 27 – 37 Ch.7, 43 – 46 Ch.10, 1:13:00 – 1:26:30

  6. Pythagoras-500b.c.-a Greek mathematician, natural philosopher & mystic…believed Colors sit on surface, emission from eyes Aristotle-384-322b.c.colors come from B &W Leone Battista Alberti-1404-1472 (Renaissance)- an Italian architect, author, poet, linguist, philosopher, priest, cryptographer….saw Color as dependent on Light. The 4 elements associated with 4 colors. Pythagoras ~550BC Aristotle ~350BC

  7. More Color Theorists….

  8. Frances Bacon (1561-1626)-empirical studies, scientific experimentation • Rene Descartes (1596-1650)-light reflection • Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)-color physics • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German Polymath…opposed Newton’s rigid, scientific reports on color…an engager, one who observed color, embracing the phenomena, rather than classifying analytical data. Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe thought that colour arose at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these colored edges overlap.

  9. Color Wheel creationsbased on the subtractive system…

  10. Goethe’s Color Circle:3 subtractive primaries & 3 secondary hues, placement determined by color opposition

  11. Moses Harris’ Circle: Indicates each Hue + Tints and Shades

  12. The Munsell Color Tree:Three Properties of Color in 3-dimensions(Hue, Value, Intensity) Albert H. Munsell Tree

  13. The Traditional 12pt. Color Wheel

  14. Features of the 12 point Subtractive Color Wheel

  15. Feature 1: Twelve Hues – 3 primary, 3 secondary, 6 tertiary 3 primaries (RYB) Remaining Hues 6 tertiaries: (YO, YG, BG, BV, RV, RO) made from One Primary + One Secondary Color 3 secondaries (GVO) made from two Primaries

  16. DETAILS on Feature 1 Hue Contrast Black & White Red, Yellow, Blue Green, Violet, Orange

  17. DETAILS on Feature 1Value Contrast Neutrals or Achromatic Colors (Black, White, Gray, i.e. Colors with no detectable Hue) can be seen as Hue effectors. Color variations are made from a combination of Neutrals and Hues.

  18. Feature 2: Temperature -2 halves of the color circle: WARM & COOL -Warm, saturated, light value hues are "active" and visually advance. -Cool, low saturated, dark value hues are "passive" and visually recede.

  19. Feature 3: Color Relationships – families/harmonies VS. color opposites Hue Relationships on the Color Circle

  20. A. Simple Color Families / Harmonies

  21. Analogous Harmony (family)

  22. Analogous Harmony using R, RO, RV as well as tints, shades and/or tones

  23. B. Contrasting or Opposing Harmonies / Families

  24. Complementary or Dyad Harmony

  25. Cool / Warm Harmony

  26. Double Complement Harmony

  27. Double Complement Harmony based on RV-YG and R-G, plus tints, shades, tones

  28. Split Complement Harmony

  29. Split Complement Line Study based on B & RO-YO

  30. C. Balanced Color Harmonies

  31. Triadic Harmonies Primary Triad Harmony

  32. Secondary Triad Harmony

  33. Color Harmony based on Secondary Triad, as well as tints, tones, and/or shades.

  34. Tetrad Harmony

  35. Another Tetrad Harmony

  36. GROUP PROJECT: Simulated Transparency • Intro. Mini Colleges • Due Next week: 2 mini collages & bring color-aid paper & exacto knife for cont’d work on Mini Colleges etc.  Discuss Colorblind Painter Write-up Requirements…

  37. OK Go! This Too Shall Pass Rube Goldberg Machine (also inspired by The Way Things Go…) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

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