Color theory

Color Theory by Alexander Cherkov, from the book Introduction to the World of Art "Sculpture, painting, drawing and more".

This in itself is already beautiful, optimistic and happy. And you do not need to know anything about the theory of color, to really enjoy the process of painting in these colors on a white surface, as children do. But for some reason, in the process of mixing the colors, the painting begins to turn into a dirty puddle. What's going on?

Color theory

When you begin to understand the secrets of color, you discover many surprises, in which it makes no sense:

1. red and-purple Farthest apart in the spectrum, in our perception they are close enough to each other to see them as neighbors, allowing the spectrum to be closed in a circle, known as the "color wheel".

2. In the resulting circle, blue Could not find a mate and left the dance.

3. We see that by mixing red and-yellow We accept orange, yellow and-blue - green, red and-blue - purple. But a mixture of orange and-green Does not becomeyellow, green and-purple Does not becomeblue, Andpurple and-orange Does not becomered.

4. In this way, we are left with only three basic colors out of the seven colors of the rainbow: red, yellow and-blue. They are not exactly red, yellow and-blue, As for example in Pete Mondrian's painting, but it is precisely these "cold" shades of the three primary colors that form the basis for the creation (as a result of mixing) of the entire color spectrum visible to the human eye. And it is precisely these colors that form the basis of modern digital printing.

5. The colors obtained by mixing the three primary colors - orange, green and-purple, Institutes Sub-colors. By mixing sub-colors and base color, six additional colors are obtained, called Tertiary colors: Red-orange, red-purple, yellow-green, yellow-orange, blue-green and blue-purple.

6. The next surprise awaits us when we mix the three primary colors: a color is obtained black. In fact, it is not quite the same deep hue of color black Achromatic, which is obtained by burning wood to produce charcoal for drawing. However, he called Kazimir Malevich's painting, which was painted without the use of black, "the black square".

7. In the following diagram you can see that in order to obtain a black color, two properly chosen colors will suffice. It is surprising that in each pair the resulting color is darker than all the colors it contains, and is not the average of the shades' darkness. Two such colors, which form a "black color" pair, are called complementary colors.

For what do you need to know this?

"Yes" and "No" do not say, "black" and "white" do not say! Remember the famous childhood game? Absolute black color and absolute white color, as we have already mentioned, in our relative world do not exist. These colors always have an additional hue: warm (reddish or yellowish) or cold (bluish).

8. If we cross an imaginary line on the color wheel, we get a rainbow The warm shades (Red, orange and yellow), and the rainbow The cold shades (blue, purple, and green). Color temperature, warm or cold, indicates the strength of the shade and is essential for creating the light in the painting and expressing the artist's mood.

9. Scaling shades in different degrees of darkness of one color is called a machine Monochromaticity. Mono = one, chrome = color. The meaning of the term Achromaticity It is colorless and refers to white, black and shades of gray, which are created by mixing white and black.

Colors - explanation, meanings and tips:
red | yellow | blue | white | black | green | orange | pink | purple | Heat | gray | Gold | Of money | bronze