1. Comprehending Color

2. “If you think about the way a composer would go in a room and score, let's say, the oboe's gonna play this note, the bassoon's gonna play that note, the french horn will play that note, the resultant sound, the combination of those notes makes kind of a chord, and I'm doing the same thing with color.” Chuck Close Self Portrait, 2000

3. “Color is all. When color is right, form is right
“Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.” Marc Chagall Paris Through the Window

4. “He who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color on another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinitely diverse imagery.”

5. Hue This is what we usually mean when we ask "what color is that?"
For example, when we talk about colors that are red, yellow, green, and blue, we are talking about hue.
A hue is independent of a tint or shade

6. Primary Colors Red, yellow, and blue.
With these three colors (and black and white) you can make any color.
You can not mix any colors to make the primary colors.

7. Secondary Colors You mix: Yellow + Blue= Green
Violet, orange, and green.
These colors are made by mixing one primary color with another primary color
You mix:
Yellow + Blue= Green
Red + Blue = Violet (purple)
Red + Yellow =Orange

8. Tertiary Color
Yellow-orange, orange-red, red-violet, blue-violet, yellow-green, blue-green
These colors are made by mixing a primary and a secondary color
By mixing:
Red + Violet=red-violet
Red + Orange=orange-red
Blue + Violet=blue-Violet
Blue + Green=blue-green
Yellow + Green=Yellow-green
Yellow + Orange=yellow-orange

9. Color Schemes

10. Cool Colors Greens, Blues and Violets are Cool Colors.
Cool colors are often associated with water, sky, spring, and plants.
They suggest cool temperatures

11. Warm Colors Reds, oranges, and yellows are warm colors
Warm colors are often associated with fire and the sun

12. Neutral Colors
Purple (red-violet) and yellow-green are between warm and cool. These are your neutral colors.

13. Warm and Cool Colors are opposite from each other on the Color Wheel

14. Complementary Colors
Complimentary Colors are opposite each other on the color wheel.
Complementary colors enhance each other when they are next to each other and neutralize each other when they are mixed.

15. Complementary Colors
Red and Green
Blue and Orange
Yellow and Violet

16. Complementary scheme Waterloo Bridge Claude Monet
A color scheme using opposite hues on the color wheel
Waterloo Bridge Claude Monet

17. Famous Complementary Colors

18. Complementary Colors
You can also find these combinations in nature.

20. Monochromatic
Monochromatic: A color scheme that involves one hue, plus it’s various tints and shades ( one color combined with only black or white, varying in value).

21. Monochromatic
Georgia O’Keefe

22. Triadic Colors(Triads)
A color scheme using three colors that are equal distance from each other on the color wheel.
They form an equilateral triangle
These are very colorful but have a sense of harmony when used together.

23. Triad
Broadway Boogie-Woogie:
Piet Mondrian

24. ANALOGOUS COLORS

25. Analogous
Sunflowers Vincent Van Gogh

26. Split-Complementary Colors

27. Split Complementary Color Scheme
The Dance Henri Matisse

28. Picasso & Color Schemes
Monochromatic ‘The Blue Period’
The Old Guitarist, 1903

29. The Tragedy, 1903 Blues Period Sad subjects
Influenced by friend’s suicide

30. Complementary The Red Armchair, 1931
Cubism
Simplified, geometric shapes

31. The Violin, 1913 Cubism – Several points of view.
Collage in one painting

32. Triadic
Three Musicians, 1921

33. Split Complementary

34. Analogous Loaves and Bowl of Fruit on Table, 1908
Analogous – yellow-green, yellow, yellow-orange, orange, yellow-green