The Colour"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most."— John Ruskin

THE COLOUR WHEELWhat type of colours are these?

Primary Colours

Primary Colours

Primary Colours

•Cannot be made from any other colours

•All other colours are made from these

•Equal distance from each other on colour wheel

Secondary Colours

Secondary Colours

Secondary Colours

•Made by mixing equal amounts of 2 primary colours

•Found halfway between the primary colours on the wheel

Tertiary Colours

Made by mixing equal amounts of adjoining primary and secondary colours.

The whole colour wheel

Complementary Colours

This colour scheme uses opposite colours on the colour wheel. These colours are across from each other on the wheel and have great contrast.

"Complementary colors make a strange pair. They are opposite, yet they require each other. They incite each other to maximum vividness when together; and annihilate each other when mixed.“— Johannes Itten

Complementary colours used by Van Gogh

BLUE + ORANGE

Complementary colours used by Monet

RED + GREEN

COLOUR RELATIONSHIPS:Color relationships may be displayed as a color wheel

or a color triangle.

The Painter's color triangle consists of colors we would often use in art class—those colors we learn about as children. The primary hues are red, blue and yellow.

The Printers' color triangle is the set of colors used in the printing process. The primaries are magenta, cyan, and yellow.

Nine-part harmonic triangle of Goethe begins with the printer's primaries; the secondaries formed are the painter's primaries; and the resulting tertiaries formed are dark neutrals.

Describing colours: hue, tint, shade and tone

 Hue as one of the twelve colors on the mixing wheel.

Every individual color on the Basic Colour Wheel can be altered in three ways by Tinting, Shading or Toning.

Understanding colour terms

Let’s start with Lightening the twelve basic colors to create Tints. A Tint is sometimes called a Pastel. Basically it’s simply any color with white added.A Shade is simply any color with black added.A Tone is created by adding both White and Black which is grey. Any color that is “greyed down” is considered a Tone.

The Fauves With respect to the arts, color was part of the realistic, visual representation of form, but one group of painters abandoned the traditional practices regarding color in painting. This group of artists were influenced by Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. Led by Henri Matisse, they were known as the Fauves, or "the wild beasts." Their exuberant use of brilliant hues seem to disregard imitative color. Whereas other artists had used color as the description of an object, the Fauves let color become the subject of their painting. A painting in the "Fauvist Manner" was one that related color shapes; rather than unifying a design with line, compositions sought an expressiveness within the relationships of the whole. This turn from tradition brought an integrity to color in that color was regarded on its own merit.

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."— Pablo Picasso

Read more about the Fauves at the National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/fauve/

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QUOTATIONS BY HENRI MATISSE

“When I put a green, it it not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.”

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

“Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance”.

Exactitude is not truth.

"Colour is life; for a world without colours appears to us as dead."—

Johannes Itten

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