COLORS
COLORS
Pena
Colors are very essential to your compositions. One may use a
combination or one or more colors. It may be our instinct to choose
color but there is a science behind it, called Color Theory.
Red and yellow are both primary colors, with orange Blue is the only primary color within the cool
falling in the middle. spectrum. Greens take on some of the attributes of
yellow, and purple takes on some of the attributes of
red. They are often more subdued than warm colors.
Warm colors appear closer to the observer.
Cool colors appear farther from the observer.
Color Schemes: Warm
19th c. theories of “Simultaneous Contrast” and optical mixing Ex. Eugène Delacroix Women of Algiers
Complementary
colors in
art & design
optical mixing
Ex. Pointillism (neo-expressionism)--
Seurat
Split-Complementary Color
Scheme
Split-complementary
color scheme uses
the colors on both
sides of the opposite
color.
Triadic Color Scheme
• 00 is a lack of primary
• ff is the primary at full strength
To find additive colors, start with black and change each pair to
ff:
#000000 is black (no primaries)
#ff0000 is the brightest red
#00ff00 is the brightest green
#0000ff is the brightest blue
To find subtractive colors, start with white and change each pair
to 00:
#ffffff is white
#00ffff is the brightest cyan
#ff00ff is the brightest magenta
#ffff00 is the brightest yellow