1. Warm/Cool Contrast

2. Color Temperature The tendency of certain colors to read as warm (red) or cool (blue).

3. Warm Colors Are colors associated with fire. Hues in the ‘red’ section of the color-wheel are considered warm colors– orange, red- violet, yellow are all considered ‘warm’ colors Warm colors TEND to be stimulating, especially red.

4. Red Sitting Room, David Hicks, Interior Designer

5. Luis Ortega, Interior Desiner

6. Wolf Kahn

7. Cool Colors Are blue-based colors—blue, green, blue- violet These colors suggest water and trees They tend to be soothing and relaxing. Most Americans claim to prefer blues and green

8. Helen Frankenthaler

9. Peter Dunham, Interior Design

10. Anonymous Interior Design

12. Colors on the ‘red’ half of the color wheel tend to read as warm. Colors on the ‘blue’ half of the color wheel tend to read cool. This is relative, not absolute!!

13. Red-Orange is the warmest Hue Blue-green, the coolest

14. Studies show that color temperature may be linked to the experience of actual temperature. Subjects in a red-orange room reported feeling cold once the temperature hit 52 degrees In a blue-green room they reported feeling cold at 59 degrees

15. Notice how the same red-violet in the first square of both scales reads warm OR cool depending on the context.

16. PMS 219 (base color-Rubine Red)PMS 205 (one part yellow added)PMS 217 (one part Rubine red+30 parts white) These colors all fall under the ‘red’ rubric. Which seems warmest?

17. Pierre Bonnard Contrast of warm and cool colors in a composition

18. Pierre Bonnard Warmer colors seem to extend toward the viewer. Cooler colors recede into the distance

19. Donald Sultan, Poppies Warmer colors seem larger and closer, cooler colors seem smaller and farther

20. Graham Nickson, Bathers Notice how the warm/cool contrast causes the reds and yellows to ‘pop’

21. Claude Monet, Houses of Parliament in Fog

22. Most of these colors are ‘reds’ which elements of the room read as ‘warmer’ and which as ‘cooler’ colors.?

23. Peter Doig, Ski Jump By adding blue to both the reds and the yellows, Doig has created a composition that reads as ‘cool’ despite only using traditionally ‘warm’ colors.

24. Graham Nickson