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Ar. Sudesh

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  Colour is a phenomenon of light.
Colour induces different feelings in individuals according to
the environment.
 Colour alters the appearance of object.
Colour is one of the most powerful of elements and has
tremendous expressive qualities.

The word colour applies to the whole spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
violet, black and white.
The colour wheel or colour circle is the basic tool for combining colours. The first
circular colour diagram was designed by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666. The color wheel is
a means of organizing the colors in the spectrum. The color wheel consists of 12 sections.

 Each color is made up of a single wavelength combined to form

other colors. For example, red light mixed with yellow light creates
an orange color.
 Color is the most important, versatile, and distinctive of the
elements of design.
 Color is almost always the first thing you notice when entering a
room.
 Color can set a mood.
 Color can make rooms feel larger or smaller.
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 Color can even hide architectural flaws.
  Primary ,Secondary and Tertiary colors.

The primary colors are, red, yellow and blue and are the purest and most intense
of all the colors.
They form a triangle on the color wheel and are colors that cannot be mixed from
any other colors.
 These are the only colors that can be found in nature.

The secondary colors are orange, green and violet and are duller than the primaries because they have been
mixed together.
 They form a triangle on the color wheel and are colors that are mixed from the primary colors.
Primary + Primary = secondary - orange green violet, Red + yellow=orange, Blue + yellow= green, Red +
blue= violet

 The Intermediate (Tertiary) Colors -These colors are yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-
orange, red-violet and are even duller than the secondary colors because the primary has been mixed with a
secondary.
 These 6 colors are formed by mixing a primary and a secondary color.
 Primary + Secondary = Tertiary, yellow + orange=yellow-orange, yellow + green = yellow-green, blue + green
=blue-green, blue + violet = blue-violet, red + violet =red-violet, red + orange = red-orange, Yellow orange Red
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green Yellow green
 The concept of RGB (Red, green, Blue) and RYB (Red Yellow, Blue) is the perspective at which light comes to you.

 Additive color systems  Subtractive color systems

start without light start with light (WHITE).
(BLACK).  Colored inks, paints, or
 Light sources of various filters between the viewer
wavelengths combine to and the light sources of
make a color. reflective surfae subtract
 Resultant colour is wavelengths from the light,
white. giving it color.
 Is what happens when  Resultant colour is black.
lights of different  All the colours
wavelengths ( colours) are ( wavelengths) except the
mixed. visible one have been
 For light. absorbed ( subtracted )
 For scientific purposes.  For pigment.
 For artistic purposes.
 Black absorbs most light.
 White reflects most light.

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  A hue is the purest or brightest form of a color.
 Hues are colors that have not been mixed with white, gray, or black.
 The twelve colors around on the outermost part of the wheel are hues.

 The circle of colors next to the hues

represent the tint of each hue.
 A tint is the hue mixed with white.

 The next circle of colors next

to the tint represent the tone
of each hue.
 A tone is the hue mixed with
gray.  The inner circle of colors next to the
tone represent the shade of each hue.
 A shade is the hue mixed with black.

 The art element that describes the darkness or lightness of a color.

 Quality of brightness and purity three properties.

 High intensity -color is strong and brigh.
 Low intensity -color is faint and dull three properties.
 “ Mono” means “one”, “chroma” means “color”… monochromatic color schemes have only
one color and its values.
 Utilizes colors from the same family on the wheel.

 Complementary colors are opposite on the color wheel provided a high contrast .

 Use three colors that are eqyally spaced from each other on the color wheel .

 Use three colors that are eqyally spaced from each other on the color wheel .

 Use two colors on either side of colors complement.

 Useing colors that are next to each other and then finding their opposites on
the colour wheel.

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 Are relaxation and calm.  Are energetic and stimulate activity.
 the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three properties of
color : hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity).
 the first to systematically illustrate the colors in three-dimensional space.
 is based on rigorous measurements of human subjects’ visual responses to color.
 The system consists of three independent properties of color which can be represented
cylindrically in three dimensions as an irregular color solid: hue, measured by degrees
around horizontal circles; chroma, measured radially outward from the neutral (gray)
vertical axis; and value, measured vertically on the core cylinder from 0 (black) to 10
(white).

Plain white and plain black at the two ends

of the center axis
Grays range from light to dark along the
center axis
Neutral tones, with less chroma, near the
center of each spoke of the wheel
Strongest “chroma” of each hue, found
toward the outer edge of the ring

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