Tuesday, 27 December 2016

Seventh Post - Exploration of Colour




This colour wheel (known as a Brewster/Prang colour wheel) has been produced with coloured pencils, using primary colours of Red, Yellow and Blue.  The wheel organises the colour pigments into primary, secondary and tertiary hues.   The secondary hues are orange, green and violet, the tertiary hues are red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet and red.


These colours are all tertiary hues, the first being red-violet, the second violet and the third blue-violet.  Red was added to blue and then white until the tone was the right hue.


Yellow and Blue are the primary colours here.  I added blue to yellow to obtain the tertiary yellow-green and white to blue until it was the correct hue.


In this example Yellow, Red and Blue are the primary colours used to give theses tertiary hues of yellow-green and yellow-orange.

The below images demonstrate the effects of different lighting on the colour selections.

The image below is taken in bright sunlight which has high levels of illumination making the colours seem less saturated, or lighter.


The same image has been photographed (below) in subdued lighting, lowering the illumination has darkened the colours values and neutralised their hues.

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