Introduction to colour

Definitions: 

Hue 

• An element of the color wheel
• One of the main properties of a color
• Refers to a pure color in painting color theory - one without tint or shade

           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HueScale.svg

Value

• Lightness or darkness of color, sometimes called tone.
• A property of a color or a dimension of a color space.
• More white to hue, brighter the value; vice versa

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N3oCGLI0R0I/TBFRF0SMxiI/AAAAAAAAAYU/tOaI-VOrnXM/s1600/value_scale.jpg

Saturation

• Colorfulness of a color relative to its own brightness
• Related to colorfulness and chroma in colorimetry and color theory
• Purity of a hue
• The more the gray a color contains, the less saturated it is

http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/workbook40/saturation_01.gif

                    

 Secondary Color

• Mixture of two primary colors in a given color space.
• Red and yellow = orange, yellow and blue = green, red and blue = purple.
• Depends on the proportion in which you mix the two primaries.

http://0.tqn.com/d/painting/1/0/O/X/1/ColorTheoryMixture.jpg

Tertiary color

• A tertiary color is a color made by mixing either one primary color with one secondary color, or two secondary colors, in a given color space such as RGB ( more modern ) or RYB ( traditional ).
• RYB uses pigments, similar to CMY, which combine subtractively by absorbing light. Thus, combining colors using the RYB system will result in a darker color.
• Additive secondaries - Light (RGB)

• red	(●)	+	green	(●)	=	yellow	(●)
  green	(●)	+	blue	(●)	=	cyan	(●)
  blue	(●)	+	red	(●)	=	magenta	(●)

  
  
  
• Subtractive secondaries - Pigment (CMY) [CMYK's "K" stands for Key (usually black)]

  	cyan	(●)	+	magenta	(●)	=	blue	(●)
  	magenta	(●)	+	yellow	(●)	=	red	(●)
  	yellow	(●)	+	cyan	(●)	=	green	(●)

• Traditional painting (RYB)
  

  RYB colors: primary (roman) and secondary (bold)

  yellow

  orange

  red

  purple

  blue

  green

  yellow

Analogous color

• Analogous colors are groups of colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel, with one being the dominant color.
• Which tends to be a primary or secondary color, and two on either side complimenting, which tend to be tertiary.

http://www.photographyicon.com/analogous/

Tint

• A tint is the mixture of a color with white, which increase lightness.

Shade

• A shade is the mixture of a color with black, which reduces lightness.

http://www.gefielder.com/images/m-Shade-color-and-shadowlg.jpg

Monochromatic color

• Monochromatic colors are all the colors (tints, tones and shades) of a single hue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochromatic_color

Warm color

• Warm colors are often said to be hues from red through yellow, browns and tans included.
• Appear more active in painting.

http://anm104f11.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/002-warm-color_004.jpg

Cool color

• Cool colors are based on blues, greens, pinks, purples, blue-greens, magentas, and true "blue-based" reds.

http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/images/Color/wpe5.jpg

Regal

http://www.regalcolours.com/images/oxide-color.jpg

Freshness 

Joy

Passion

Another new assignment!

Symmetry and Asymmetry!

Helloooo! It has been awhile :D I was so busy lately with all the assignments. Two weeks ago, Miss Lisa gave us another assignment and it was about symmetry and asymmetry. So.. what does those two means ? Symmetry means the left side and right side of an image that is proportional to each other, like mirror image. While asymmetry is the opposite of symmetry, which is more unbalance. 

After the explanation, she gave us the title of assignment, which is paper cutout! We were told to do 2 paper cutout, which was based on what we had just learned, symmetry and asymmetry. We were given a week to complete the cutout because there was a week of holidays (sem break). For the cutout, each of us were told to have a subject matter. At first, I wanted it to be "Dragon", but then I changed my mind. I'd changed to "Tattoo". 

This assignment took me a lot of time to finish it. I did it slowly and carefully so that it won't destroy my cutout and shapes. It was very very tiring and my neck hurts a lot after doing it :/ but the feeling of completing a cutout I did myself healed my neck immediately hahahaha. I used a pen knife from Daiso to do the cutout because my blade is too big to cut the small spaces. Miss Lisa suggested us to try it and I didn't regret it hahahaha.

Process, materials and tools :D

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Tadaaa~

Some of you might think I printed them out first before I cut them but I only thing I printed out is the grey body. I draw lines on the grey body and cut them out, after that stick it on a green paper. 

Ohh.. and on the day we were suppose to do the presentation of our paper cut out, which was on Wednesday 19th of June.. I couldn't make it because of my stomach =.= Something was wrong with my stomach on that week. I wasn't quite feeling well, maybe because of the haze. I'm so sorry Miss Lisa.. :(

I will end it here, I'll post again soon if I'm free :D