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14 May 2011
13 May 2011
005 Basic Colour Theory: Colours and Their Associations
Included:
* Red
* Pink
* Orange
* Yellow
* Green
* Blue
* Blue-green (teal/turquoise)
* Indigo (blue-purple/blue-violet)
* Purple (violet)
* Black
* White
* Grey
Red
Red is a warm colour and is often associated with
Pink is a tint of red and is often associated with
Orange
Orange is a warm colour and is often associated with
Yellow
Yellow is a warm colour and is often associated with
Green
Green is a cool colour and is often associated with
Blue
Blue is a cool colour and is often associated with
Blue-green, teal, or turquoise is/are a mixture of blue and green and are associated with
Indigo
Indigo (also known as "blue-violet" or "blue-purple") is a cool colour and is often associated with
In the New Age culture, there are children called "indigo children" and are said to possess special, unusual, and/or supernatural powers. According to Wikipedia, the characteristics of indigo children
Violet
Violet (also known as "purple") is a cool colour and is often associated with
Black
Black isn't technically a colour. It is associated with
In scientific terms, black is the lack of colour. Something that is black absorbs all colours from the light spectrum, which is why black things are hotter: It retains the energy/light/heat.
To the Egyptians, black is seen as representing goodness and life, as the soil of the Nile is black and brings life to the Egyptian lands.
White
White isn't technically a colour. It is associated with
In scientific terms, white is the entire colour spectrum. Things that are white absorb no colour, so we see all of the colours of the spectrum reflect off the surface. This is why white things are generally cooler: They do not absorb the energy/light/heat.
As white is opposite black, it is a symbol of death and destruction to the Egyptian peoples, due to black being the colour of prosperity.
Grey is the mixture of black and white, and is associated with
Basic Colour Theory:
* Red
* Pink
* Orange
* Yellow
* Green
* Blue
* Blue-green (teal/turquoise)
* Indigo (blue-purple/blue-violet)
* Purple (violet)
* Black
* White
* Grey
Red
Red is a warm colour and is often associated with
- Fire
- Burning or heat
- Roses
- Anger
- Stop signs
- Warnings
- Energy
- Love
- Blood
- Head-strong or stubborn people (ex. red heads)
- Happiness (esp. in China)
- Good luck (esp. in China)
- Marriage (esp. in China)
- Sex or sexuality
- Passion
- Love
- Lust
- Anger
- Confidence
- Danger
- War
- Ares
- Aphrodite
- The planet Mars
Pink is a tint of red and is often associated with
- Love
- Innocence
- Femininity
- Girls
- Romance
- Caring and compassion
- Tenderness
- Aphrodite
Orange
Orange is a warm colour and is often associated with
- The Sun
- Happiness/joy
- Apollo
- Helios
- Aphrodite/Venus
- The planet Venus
- Warmth
- Energy
- Enthusiasm
Yellow
Yellow is a warm colour and is often associated with
- The Sun and sunshine
- Apollo
- Helios
- Aphrodite/Venus
- The planet Venus
- Sunflowers
- Happiness/joy
- Friendship
- Innocence
- Optimism
- Children
- Spring
- Cowardice
- Warning
- Dishonesty or a two-faced person
- Gold
- Jealousy
- Betrayal
Green
Green is a cool colour and is often associated with
- Spring
- Fertility
- Nature
- Hope
- Peace
- Calm
- Money
- Greed
- Jealousy or envy
- Innocence
Blue
Blue is a cool colour and is often associated with
- The ocean
- Water
- Rain
- The sky
- Calm, peace, or tranquility
- Harmony
- Trust
- Cleanliness
- Sadness
- Sophistication
- The planet Uranus
- Hermes/Mercury
- The planet Mercury
Blue-green, teal, or turquoise is/are a mixture of blue and green and are associated with
- Peace
- Calm
- Tranquility
- Relaxation
- Water
- The tropical oceans
- Poseidon/Neptune
- The planet Neptune
- Aphrodite
Indigo
Indigo (also known as "blue-violet" or "blue-purple") is a cool colour and is often associated with
- Spirits or spirituality
- Mystery
- Wisdom
- New Age
- Kronos
In the New Age culture, there are children called "indigo children" and are said to possess special, unusual, and/or supernatural powers. According to Wikipedia, the characteristics of indigo children
include the belief that they are empathetic, curious, strong-willed, independent, and often perceived by friends and family as being strange; possess a clear sense of self-definition and purpose; and also exhibit a strong inclination towards spiritual matters from early childhood. Indigo children have also been described as having a strong feeling of entitlement, or "deserving to be here." Other alleged traits include a high intelligence quotient, an inherent intuitive ability, and resistance to authority. According to Tober and Carroll, indigo children function poorly in conventional schools due to their rejection of authority, being smarter than their teachers, and a lack of response to guilt-, fear- or manipulation-based discipline.Of course, this describes me and I can tell you I don't know of any special, unusual, or supernatural powers that I may possess except people get uncomfortable if I look them in the eyes. -- But that's just people for you, isn't it? But it wouldn't be any surprise considering I have adult ADD. Oh, science...you ruin everything mysterious. (Lies.) ♥
Violet
Violet (also known as "purple") is a cool colour and is often associated with
- Royalty
- Spirits or spirituality
- Mystery
- Wisdom
- Femininity
- Grace or elegance
- Zeus/Jupiter
- The planet Jupiter
Black
Black isn't technically a colour. It is associated with
- Space
- Mystery
- Power
- Sophistication
- Sex or sexuality
- Elegance
- Fear
- Evil
- Death
- Destruction
- Depression
- Mourning (esp. in the West)
- The Underworld/Hades
- Hades/Pluto
In scientific terms, black is the lack of colour. Something that is black absorbs all colours from the light spectrum, which is why black things are hotter: It retains the energy/light/heat.
To the Egyptians, black is seen as representing goodness and life, as the soil of the Nile is black and brings life to the Egyptian lands.
White
White isn't technically a colour. It is associated with
- Innocence
- Purity
- Virgins
- Children
- Snow and winter
- Clouds
- Cleanliness
- Peace and calm
- Simplicity
- Marriage (esp. in the West)
In scientific terms, white is the entire colour spectrum. Things that are white absorb no colour, so we see all of the colours of the spectrum reflect off the surface. This is why white things are generally cooler: They do not absorb the energy/light/heat.
As white is opposite black, it is a symbol of death and destruction to the Egyptian peoples, due to black being the colour of prosperity.
Grey is the mixture of black and white, and is associated with
- The Moon
- Selene
- Silver
- Dullness
- Winter
- Rainy or cloudy days
- [Old] age or maturity
- Wisdom
- Calm
- Modesty
- Reliability
- Intelligence
- Athena/Minerva
- Wisdom
- The dwarf planet Pluto
Basic Colour Theory:
004 Basic Colour Theory: Colour Schemes with the Colour Wheel
Included:
* Complementary colours
* Analogous colours
* Split complementary colours
* Split analogous colours
* Monochromatic colour scheme
* Triadic colour scheme
* Tetradic or quadratic colour scheme
What is a complementary colour?
A complementary colour is the colour opposite any given colour on the colour wheel. Basic primary and secondary complementary colours:
Complementary colours are used to add tension or energy to something. Some examples include Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid (green tail, red hair) and Nemo from Finding Nemo (orange fish, blue water).
Note: It's "complement" not "compliment."
What is an analogous colour?
An analogous colour is the colour beside any given colour. Basic primary and secondary analogous colours:
Analogous colours are used to create harmony in a colour scheme. Many people would choose an analogous colour scheme when picking out an outfit to wear or colours for the walls of a room and furniture. (Or a monochromatic colour scheme. See below.)
What is a split complement colour?
A split complement colour is the two analogous colours of any given colour's complement.
This sort of colour scheme would be used to create both energy/tension and harmony.
Some examples: Again, The Little Mermaid (Ariel's hair versus her blue eyes and the ocean; Flounder is yellow and blue), Dori from Finding Nemo (Dori is blue and yellow)
What is a split analogous colour?
A split analogous colour is the colour one analogous colour away from any given colour.
What is a monochromatic colour scheme?
A monochromatic colour scheme is a colour scheme using one hue, but various tones of it. Monochromatic colour schemes are often used when matching clothes of walls and rooms (see analogous colour).
What is a triadic colour scheme?
A triadic colour scheme is a colour scheme using three colours that are equidistant to each other on the colour wheel (meaning they form a triangle).
What is a tetradic or quadratic colour scheme
A tetradic colour scheme is a colour scheme using colours that form a rectangle on the colour wheel. It is also known as a "double complementary colour scheme."
Basic Colour Theory:
* Complementary colours
* Analogous colours
* Split complementary colours
* Split analogous colours
* Monochromatic colour scheme
* Triadic colour scheme
* Tetradic or quadratic colour scheme
What is a complementary colour?
A complementary colour is the colour opposite any given colour on the colour wheel. Basic primary and secondary complementary colours:
- Red and green
- Orange and blue
- Yellow and violet
Complementary colours are used to add tension or energy to something. Some examples include Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid (green tail, red hair) and Nemo from Finding Nemo (orange fish, blue water).
Note: It's "complement" not "compliment."
What is an analogous colour?
An analogous colour is the colour beside any given colour. Basic primary and secondary analogous colours:
- Red Violet and orange
- Orange Red and yellow
- Yellow Orange and green
- Green Yellow and blue
- Blue Green and violet
- Violet Blue and red
Analogous colours are used to create harmony in a colour scheme. Many people would choose an analogous colour scheme when picking out an outfit to wear or colours for the walls of a room and furniture. (Or a monochromatic colour scheme. See below.)
What is a split complement colour?
A split complement colour is the two analogous colours of any given colour's complement.
This sort of colour scheme would be used to create both energy/tension and harmony.
Some examples: Again, The Little Mermaid (Ariel's hair versus her blue eyes and the ocean; Flounder is yellow and blue), Dori from Finding Nemo (Dori is blue and yellow)
What is a split analogous colour?
A split analogous colour is the colour one analogous colour away from any given colour.
What is a monochromatic colour scheme?
A monochromatic colour scheme is a colour scheme using one hue, but various tones of it. Monochromatic colour schemes are often used when matching clothes of walls and rooms (see analogous colour).
What is a triadic colour scheme?
A triadic colour scheme is a colour scheme using three colours that are equidistant to each other on the colour wheel (meaning they form a triangle).
What is a tetradic or quadratic colour scheme
A tetradic colour scheme is a colour scheme using colours that form a rectangle on the colour wheel. It is also known as a "double complementary colour scheme."
Basic Colour Theory:
003 Basic Colour Theory: Types of Colours
Included:
* Primary colours
* Secondary colours
* Tertiary colours
* In-between colour names
What is a primary colour?
If you have a limited amount of money, you can buy red, yellow, and blue, and create a huge number of colours with them. If you don't buy black or white, you can mix the three to get a dark colour and thin the colours out with water for lighter colours (if you're using a white background).
Primary colours are often used for super heroes in the West, such as Superman. -- Not to say the East doesn't use them: Sailor Moon is a pretty good example. Primaries are flashy colours and can catch peoples' attention easily.
What is a secondary colour?
A secondary colour is the colour created by two primary colours.
An example of characters that use secondary colours would be the Ninja Turtles. They're more harmonious due to the mix of two colours and not being as bright, generally.
What is a tertiary colour?
A tertiary colour is a colour created by a primary colour and a secondary colour. Tertiary colours are also called "intermediate colours."
When naming tertiary colours, the primary colour always comes first, -- despite what Crayola may tell you!
An example would be Jasmine from Disney's Aladdin (her teal outfit).
What are the next colours?
Of course, you could go on into infinity mixing colours (I don't suggest trying it), so what are the other colours called?
Basic Colour Theory:
* Primary colours
* Secondary colours
* Tertiary colours
* In-between colour names
What is a primary colour?
- Red
- Yellow
- Blue
If you have a limited amount of money, you can buy red, yellow, and blue, and create a huge number of colours with them. If you don't buy black or white, you can mix the three to get a dark colour and thin the colours out with water for lighter colours (if you're using a white background).
Primary colours are often used for super heroes in the West, such as Superman. -- Not to say the East doesn't use them: Sailor Moon is a pretty good example. Primaries are flashy colours and can catch peoples' attention easily.
What is a secondary colour?
- Orange red + yellow
- Green yellow + blue
- Violet blue + red
A secondary colour is the colour created by two primary colours.
An example of characters that use secondary colours would be the Ninja Turtles. They're more harmonious due to the mix of two colours and not being as bright, generally.
What is a tertiary colour?
- Red-purple
- Red-orange
- Yellow-orange
- Yellow-green
- Blue-green Also: "Teal" or "turqoise"*
- Blue-purple Also: "Indigo"
A tertiary colour is a colour created by a primary colour and a secondary colour. Tertiary colours are also called "intermediate colours."
When naming tertiary colours, the primary colour always comes first, -- despite what Crayola may tell you!
An example would be Jasmine from Disney's Aladdin (her teal outfit).
What are the next colours?
Of course, you could go on into infinity mixing colours (I don't suggest trying it), so what are the other colours called?
- Quaternary (4th)
- Quinary (5th)
- Senary (6th)
- Septenary (7th)
- Octonary (8th)
- Nonary (9th)
- Denary (10th)
- Duodenary (12th)
- Vigenary (20th)
Basic Colour Theory:
002 Basic Colour Theory: Vocabulary
Included:
* Hue
* Saturation
* Neutral colours
* Value - HSV vs. HSL
* Tint & shade (tones)
* Warm & cool colours (colour temperature)
* Relativity
What is a hue?
A colour's hue is what the colour is exactly. For example, pink's hue is red, because pink is red + white.
What is saturation?
Saturation is how "intense," "bright," or "concentrated" a colour is. "Neon colours" are considered very saturated colours. Technically speaking, a fully saturated colour is supposed to be devoid of all greys and is considered a "pure hue."
"Saturaten?" What am I on, crack??
What is a neutral colour?
A neutral colour is a colour that is closer to grey. Mixing two complements together will give you a more neutral colour. See the example above under saturation: The "not very saturated" colours are more neutral colours.
What is value?
Value is how light or dark a colour is. It is also called "lightness."
It seems there are different colour models, and those different colour models provide us with different colour values. In terms of what we might draw if we are using a pencil and looking at a picture, we can just guess how light or dark a colour is with accuracy, because that's how it looks to us.
However, there's another method that provides different results, where very saturated colours are actually darker in value than one might think or perceive.
The two methods are called "HSV" (hue-saturation-value) and "HSL" (hue-saturation-lightness) respectively. They are different because of the different cylindars the colours are modelled on. The biggest change is actually in saturation and how it is defined; however, it seems to affect when you change images to black and white more than anything. If you're interested in the technicalities of these two different methods, you can go here to the Wikipedia article.
Top is HSV, bottom is HSL.
When drawing, as mentioned above, you will probably end up using the HSV method; however, it's good to know that both exist, particularly if you use Photoshop or a similar programme.
The produce HSV black and white images, you have two options:
What is a tint? What is a shade?
A tinted colour is a colour made lighter by mixing it with white. Also called "pale colours" (more of a layman's term). I've also read "clear colours," anyone know about this?
A shaded colour is a colour made darker by using black. Also called "dark colours" (more of a layman's term).
Shades and tints are also known collectively as "tones."
What are warm and cool colours?
This is called a colour's temperature. Warm colours are usually said to be between red and yellow (including browns and tans) and cool colours are usually said to be between blue-green and violet.
How are colours relative?
Colours are relative in that they may look warm, cool, dark, light, more or less neutral, etc. based on the colours next to or surrounding it.
You may have seen this optical illusion before:
The tiles on which there are stars are actually the same colours. The dark tiles in the shadow are actually the same colour as the dark tiles in the front as well.
White is often said to be slimming, but it actually depends on what your background is.
Basic Colour Theory:
* Hue
* Saturation
* Neutral colours
* Value - HSV vs. HSL
* Tint & shade (tones)
* Warm & cool colours (colour temperature)
* Relativity
What is a hue?
A colour's hue is what the colour is exactly. For example, pink's hue is red, because pink is red + white.
What is saturation?
Saturation is how "intense," "bright," or "concentrated" a colour is. "Neon colours" are considered very saturated colours. Technically speaking, a fully saturated colour is supposed to be devoid of all greys and is considered a "pure hue."
"Saturaten?" What am I on, crack??
What is a neutral colour?
A neutral colour is a colour that is closer to grey. Mixing two complements together will give you a more neutral colour. See the example above under saturation: The "not very saturated" colours are more neutral colours.
What is value?
Value is how light or dark a colour is. It is also called "lightness."
It seems there are different colour models, and those different colour models provide us with different colour values. In terms of what we might draw if we are using a pencil and looking at a picture, we can just guess how light or dark a colour is with accuracy, because that's how it looks to us.
However, there's another method that provides different results, where very saturated colours are actually darker in value than one might think or perceive.
The two methods are called "HSV" (hue-saturation-value) and "HSL" (hue-saturation-lightness) respectively. They are different because of the different cylindars the colours are modelled on. The biggest change is actually in saturation and how it is defined; however, it seems to affect when you change images to black and white more than anything. If you're interested in the technicalities of these two different methods, you can go here to the Wikipedia article.
Top is HSV, bottom is HSL.
When drawing, as mentioned above, you will probably end up using the HSV method; however, it's good to know that both exist, particularly if you use Photoshop or a similar programme.
The produce HSV black and white images, you have two options:
- Go to mode > greyscale; or
- Create a new layer
- Fill new layer with black, white, or grey
- Change the layer to "colour" on the layers' palette Everything below this layer will be in black and white. This method allows you to keep some colour, but make the colours more neutral.
- Go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate
- Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation
- Change the saturation to -100. You can also edit different colours individually. This method allows you to keep some colour, but make the colours more neutral.
What is a tint? What is a shade?
A tinted colour is a colour made lighter by mixing it with white. Also called "pale colours" (more of a layman's term). I've also read "clear colours," anyone know about this?
A shaded colour is a colour made darker by using black. Also called "dark colours" (more of a layman's term).
Shades and tints are also known collectively as "tones."
What are warm and cool colours?
This is called a colour's temperature. Warm colours are usually said to be between red and yellow (including browns and tans) and cool colours are usually said to be between blue-green and violet.
How are colours relative?
Colours are relative in that they may look warm, cool, dark, light, more or less neutral, etc. based on the colours next to or surrounding it.
You may have seen this optical illusion before:
The tiles on which there are stars are actually the same colours. The dark tiles in the shadow are actually the same colour as the dark tiles in the front as well.
White is often said to be slimming, but it actually depends on what your background is.
Basic Colour Theory:
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