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Colors!

Colors!. Hue. Hue : The name given to color. Example: Blue is given the name Blue. VALUE. The lightness or darkness of a hue. The value of a hue can be made lighter by adding white, creating a TINT of that hue. Appearance of greater room size or height.

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Colors!

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  1. Colors!

  2. Hue • Hue: The name given to color. • Example: Blue is given the name Blue

  3. VALUE • The lightness or darkness of a hue. • The value of a hue can be made lighter by adding white, creating a TINT of that hue. • Appearance of greater room size or height. • Pink is a tint of red, Peach is a tint of orange • The value of a hue can be made darker by adding black, creating a SHADE of that hue. • Maroon is shade of red. Rust is shade of orange • Appearance of smaller room size or height

  4. INTENSITY • The Brightness or Dullness of a hue - Created by adding its compliment. • Color’s are brightest in their natural form. (i.e. pure yellow, pure red, pure blue) • Objects and rooms with Bright high intensity colors seem larger. • Bold and intense colors are best used sparingly or as accents • Objects and rooms with Dull low intensity colors seem smaller.

  5. Neutrals • Neutrals: Not really a “color”. • Examples: Beige,White, Black, grey

  6. PRIMARY COLORS • Yellow, Red, & Blue. • They occur naturally. • By mixing, lightening, or darkening the primary colors, all other colors can be made. • No other colors can be combined to create the primary colors. red blue yellow

  7. SECONDARY COLORS • Orange, Green, and Violet. • Are produced by mixing EQUAL amounts of two primary colors. • Red + Yellow = Orange • Blue + Yellow = Green • Red + Blue = Violet orange violet green

  8. INTERMEDIATE (TERTIARY) COLORS • Made by mixing a primary color with a secondary color • Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, Red-Violet, Red-Orange, and Yellow-Orange • Note: The primary color is always listed first. Yellow-Green Yellow-Orange Red-Orange Blue-green Blue-Violet Red-violet

  9. Warm colors • Give feelings of liveliness and warmth • Colors of the sun, fire • Good for rooms you want to be busy and lively

  10. Cool colors • Feeling of peacefulness…. but can be depressing if overdone • Examples are sky or water • Can make a room look smaller • Good for rooms you want to be relaxing

  11. Color Schemes

  12. MONOCHROMATIC This scheme uses shades and tints of one hue.

  13. ANALOGOUS This scheme combines colors that lie next to each other on the color.

  14. COMPLEMENTARY This scheme uses two hues. The hues must lie opposite each other on the color wheel.

  15. Split-Complementary Schemes Use of the two colors on each side of the first color’s compliment

  16. TRIADIC This scheme combines three hues. The hues must be equal distances apart on the color wheel.

  17. Things to Remember • Darker colors make a room appear smaller • Dark ceilings make a room seem shorter • Light colors make a room appear larger • Light ceilings make it appear taller

  18. Paint colors will appear two times darker on your wall than they do on the color swatch

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