Transcript Color - artsATTACK

Assignment:
Color and Value
Painted Value Scale
Painted Color Value Scale
Op Art Color Value Scale
Color Wheel
The Range of Light and Dark is
VALUE
Caravaggio and Chiaroscuro
The Taking of Christ
Rembrant, Self Portrait
Chiaroscuro or shading is
used to make something
appear 3 dimensional, to
represent the effects of
reflected light, to help
establish mood.
Sir Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton discovered that color
is a property of light.
Spectrum
The band of colors are formed when a beam of
white light is broken up by passing through a
prism; consists of 7 rays each visible as a color.
An apple looks red because it absorbs every color
except red....which it REFLECTS.
Mixing colored lights is ADDITIVE…when all
colors are combined, the result is WHITE.
Combining colored pigments is
SUBTRACTIVE and results in darker color.
a BLACK surface absorbs all colors
Primary, Secondary, Intermediate
Colors
Primary Colors or Hues
Red
 Yellow
 Blue
 All other pigment
hues is made by
mixing primary
colors.
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Secondary Colors or Hues
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Blue + Yellow = Green
Blue + Red = Violet
Red + Yellow = Orange
Tertiary or Intermediate Colors
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Yellow + Green = Yellow Green
Blue + Green = Blue Green
Blue + Violet = Blue Violet
Red + Violet = Red Violet
Red + Orange = Red Orange
Yellow + Orange = Yellow Orange
A color wheel is a formal arrangement of
primary, secondary, & intermediate colors.
TINTS are made by adding white to a color &
SHADE is a dark value of a color by adding black.
Black, White, & Gray are NEUTRAL…they
have no identifiable hues.
COMPLIMENTARY
colors are opposite of each other.
When you mix a color with its compliment…. the
color will be duller than the original colors.
Intensity and Tone
Intensity is the pure
color.
 Tone is the duller
color when
complimentary
colors are mixed.
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WARM and COOL COLORS
COLOR SCHEMES
or
COLOR HARMONY
Analogous Colors
Colors that are next
to each other on
the color wheel.
 They are closely
related colors.
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MONOCHROMATIC uses TINTS and
SHADES with one HUE.
Complementary Colors
Two colors which are directly opposite on
the color wheel
 They are extreme Contrast colors
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Split Complementary Colors
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A hue which is combined with hues on
either side of its complement.
Vincent Van Gogh
“I know for sure I have an instinct for color”
Analogous
Colors
Van Gogh
The Night Cafe
“Painting is in the
very marrow of
my bones”
 Complementary
Colors
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Helen Franken Haler
Secondary or Secondary Triad Color
Scheme
Picasso
Tragedy
 Monochromatic
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Georgia O’Keeffe
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Analogous Colors
Portrait of Mr. Gachet
Who is the artist?
Van Gogh
What is the Color Scheme?
Complementary
The Old Guitarist
Who painted The Old
Guitarist?
Picasso
What is the color
Scheme?
Monochromatic
Clouds Above The Sky II
Who is the artist? Georgia O’Keeffe
What is the color scheme? Monochromatic
Student Examples
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Painted Value Scale
Painted Color Value Scale
Op Art Color Value
Color Wheel
Answer on a Separate Piece of Paper
10 Questions:
Title your paper: Color and Value.
 Add your name and period number.
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Question 1
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What is value?
Question 2
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What is Chiaroscuro?
Question 3
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Why does a banana look yellow?
Question 4
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Mixing colored lights is _(fill in the blank)
and the result is white.
Question 5
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Mixing colored pigments is subtractive and
the result is (fill in the blank).
Question 6
Name the primary colors.
 Name the secondary colors.
 Name the tertiary (intermediate) colors.
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Question 7
What is tint?
 What is shade?
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Question 8
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Why is black, white, and gray a neutral
color?
Question 9
What is intensity?
 What is tone?
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Question 10
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What are complementary colors?