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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Learning The Advanced Color Theory

By Patty Goff


If one is in the field of arts, then one of the most important lessons that he will be learning would be the color theory. This is extremely important because it would teach the student how to mix colors until he is able to get the end result that he would want. If one is already an experienced artist, he will be learning the advanced color theory.

Now for those who do not know, the basic theory is revolved around the color wheel that is created by Sir Isaac Newton. This wheel shows how the primary colors would mix in order to form secondary colors. The primary colors are blue, yellow, and red and if they are mixed together, they form the other colors of the spectrum.

After one has already finished with the basics, one will now learn about the details and the measurements of colors. Basically, he will be learning about the different types of shades as well as how to measure them. Now there are actually five basic concepts that he would be learning about namely the hue, chroma, saturation, value, and the luminance.

The first important thing to learn would of course be the hue. The hue is what distinguishes the three primary colors from each other. Basically, it is the light that is given off to produce one of the primary colors and it measures how strong or how light one color is from the other.

The second concept that would be taught to the students would be the chroma which measures how colorful a pigment is. Now this is strongly related to the hue because it actually depends on how strong the hue is. Now if one would say that the hue is weak in a particular color, then it is known to be more colorful and vice versa.

The next concept that one will be learning about would be saturation or simply put, intensity. Now the intensity means actually the level of the strength of brightness of a color which would also measure how much impact it has on the eyes. Now colors that are known to have high saturation are any colors that would revolve around yellow and red.

The next concept to learn would be the concept of value. Now the value is what will measure the actual brightness of colors. If one shade is brighter than the other, it is known to have a higher value than the one that is darker.

The very last concept that one will be learning would of course be luminance. Now measuring luminance is actually quite similar to measuring value or saturation but it is much more mathematical in nature as there is an actual formula on how to measure this. It is measured in intensity per unit of where it came from and it could be solved by getting the average of a collection of colors.

So if one is in a science of art course, he will definitely be learning about these theories. He will first be starting from the basic theories of colors and then will go on to the more advanced ones. He will discover how useful these advanced techniques really are.




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