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Understanding the Formal Elements. COLOUR. What is this?. It is the colour wheel. What are Primary Colours ?. They are colours that can not be made by mixing other colours. By mixing different amounts of these 3 colours and black and white you can achieve a wide range of colours.
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What is this? It is the colour wheel.
What are Primary Colours? They are colours that can not be made by mixing other colours. By mixing different amounts of these 3 colours and black and white you can achieve a wide range of colours.
The 3 Primary Colours are: Yellow Blue Red
Composition A 1923 By PietMondrian In this oil painting Mondrian has only used the 3 primary colours, red, blue and yellow and the tones black and white.
What are Secondary Colours? Secondary colours are the colours created when you mix 2 primary colours together.
Green Orange The 3 Secondary Colours are: Purple
Digital photography found on the internet using secondary colours.
What are Tertiary Colours? Tertiary colours are colours that are made by mixing one primary and one secondary colour. These colours are a mix between the colours, red-orange, orange yellow. They are the third set of colours.
The primary colour is always listed first: red-orange yellow-orange yellow-green blue-green blue-violet red-violet
Painting by WassilyKandinsky using Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colours.
What are Complementary Colours? Complementary colours tend to look balanced and are colours opposite to each other on the colour wheel. When placed next to each other they appear to become brighter, they are colour’sthat best complement each other.
Red and green are complementary colours.
Orange and blue are complementary colours.
Yellow and purple are complementary colours.
Digital photography found on the internet using complementary colours.
The Old King 1937 By Georges Roualt In Roualt’s painting here he has used the predominantly used the colours blue and orange. They compliment each other and make each other stand out from all the others.
What are AnalogusColours? Analogous colours’are harmonious colours’which sit side by side on the colour wheel. They are related colours’from the same family such as yellow, yellow orange, orange, orange red, red. This is more commonly known as a family of colour, you would take red and yellow the two primaries and orange in the middle and make all the other tones of reds and yellows and oranges in between to make a family
Analogous colors always look good together. Any colors that are side by side on the color wheel are analogous.
When artists use analogous colours in their work, we say that their colors have harmony. They make the family as they all seem to belong to each other.
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What are Warm and Cool Colours? Warm colour’sare colour’ssuch as red and yellow which seem 'warm' and sometimes look like they come forward/advance. Cool colours’are colours’such as the blues, which appear go backwards/receed. They are used to create the illusion of space in a painting or a smaller room. Some artists use these colour’s to describe emotion.
Cool Pablo Picasso uses warm colours’in his painting of the clown and cold colour in his portrait of a woman’s head. Warm Head of a woman 1902-03 Harlequin sitting on a red couch 1905
