These are some Cliff Notes from books on color and personal studies I have done. This is a lot of great information that will help out very much when practiced: Art Notes: Color Theory Personal Notes from Faber Birren - Color value and sequence present greatest beauty when aligned in a 1-2-3-4 etc formula or a 9-8-7-6 formula which concludes that gradual shade and gradual tint have relation when sharing a uniform sequence in value - all colors will usually harmonize with white and black - tints of all kinds will harmonize with white - shades of all kinds will harmonize with black - tones of all kinds will harmonize with gray - combinations of intermediate hues are deemed less attractive - brown (sienna and umber) have relation to the orange family - olive is a shade of yellow-green * Theory: Red is supposed to harmonize best with blue-green when the area of blue-green is 3-4 x larger than the area of red (because red is of higher chroma than blue-green) aka less of it is required to form gray on the color wheel. - strong pure hues look best when confined to smaller areas and when they are surrounded by larger complimentary areas in softer chromas (tints, shades, or tones) - balanced harmonies on the color wheel equally in separate space bring out a highly unique color scheme - colors on the color wheel seperated by 3 steps (4 total) in any direction is another highly sought after color scheme (tetrad) ex: red, yellow, blue-green and violet; magneta yellow-orange, green and blue; purple, orange, yellow-green and turquoise on the color wheel. ***** Iridescent, Lustrous, and Luminous effects****** -Chroma around the area of effect is key! -Iridescent can be acheived by purity/intensity in a color compared to the surroundings. - Try covering area in dark value, then going back over area with bright intensity. *****Luminous is most difficult to achieve****** - the area to be made luminous must be relatively small in size - it must be purer in chroma than its surroundings - it must be higher in value than its surroundings - its hue quality (red, yellow, blue, etc,) must seem to pervade all other colors in the composition, just as though such a light were shining upon the entire drawing -deep values must be avoided. when light shines into the eye, it tends to blur vision and make all adjacent objects appear soft and filmy. black for example will lose its harshness and appear deep gray and atmospheric. -contrast between luminous area is moderate rather than extreme
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:00:23 +0000
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