Art 325 - Oil Painting
Color Charts, Definitions, and Some Rules
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- Shade
- adding black to a hue
- Spilt Complement
- a color, its complement, plus one color anologous to the complement and tints & shades.
- Color Rule 7
- a color gains power when it rests on its complement
- Splot Complement #2
- a color and the two colors that are analougous to the complement but not the complement, plus all its tints and shades
- Color Rule 4
- bright colors advance, dull colors recede
- primary
- a color that connot be mixed from two other hues. (Red, Yellow, Blue) (we break that rule in our color wheel)
- Complementary:
- Two colors that are across from eachother on the color wheel plus all of their tints and shades
- Tint
- adding white to a hue
- Secondary
- a hue that is in between two primaries (orange, green, violate
- stippling
- you can suggest a secondary or tertiary by painting small dots of primary hues next to and around and in between each other (optical mixing)
- Nuetralizing a color
- you can add a color to its complement to shade and object. It turns brown.
- Color Rule 1
- warm colors advance, cool colors recede
- Triad:
- Three colors spaced equidistantly on the color wheel, plus all their tints and shades.
- Hue
- a pure color on the color wheel
- Color Rule 2
- hues advance, tinits and shades reced
- Monochromatic
- one color all of its values through the use of tints and shades
- Color Rule 3
- hues advance, nuetrals reced
- Achromatic
- Black, Greys, and White
- Tertiary
- a hue that is in between a primary and a secondary hue (yellow/orange, blue violet)
- Analogous:
- Three or four colors next to eachother on the color wheel, plus all the tints and shades. (DOESN"T cross over a primary)
- Simultaneous contrast
- your eyes can see the complement of a hue while looking at that hue.
- Color Rule 5
- light advances, dark recedes
- Glazing
- you can change a color by painting over it with a thin application of another color
- Color Rule 6
- complex line structure advances while flat planes of color recede (detail v background)
- Tinted shade
- adding black and white to a hue