1. COLOR
How we see it

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3. Apple!

4. How we see color

5. Exploring it’s history
COLOR
Exploring it’s history

6. Man’s earliest marks
Cave paintings

7. The middle ages

8. Illuminated Manuscripts
Color use is flat
Techniques for applying color are simple
Symbolic color

9. The Renaissance
Chiaroscuro: value is more important than color

10. Raphael

11. 16th century
Value is still important but color is starting to be applied more grandly

12. Caravaggio
Studying the effects of light

13. Vermeer

14. The 19th Century
Color comes alive!!

15. Turner

16. Impressionism

17. Monet

18. Degas

19. Post-Impressionism

21. Corbet

22. Gauguin

23. Matisse

24. Fauvism

25. Chagall

26. Marc

28. Delaunay
Orphism

30. Color Field

31. Frankenthaler

32. Rothko

34. Color Theory
Review

35. The properties of Color:
HUE
VALUE
INTENSITY
TEMPERATURE

36. **These hues make up the color wheel**
The name of the color itself
(on the color wheel)
1. Primary Hues
2. Secondary Hues
3. Tertiary/Intermediate Hues
**These hues make up the color wheel**

37. Lightness and darkness of a color
Value
Lightness and darkness of a color
Tint: lighter color-created by adding white
Shade: darker color-created by adding black

38. Intensity Brightness or dullness of a color Prismatic: an intense hue
(Saturation or strength of a color)
Prismatic: an intense hue
Tone: less intense hue—created by adding gray or mixing complementary hues together

39. Warmth or coolness of a color
Temperature
Warmth or coolness of a color
Relative to the environment that a color is placed in—every color has temperature variations

41. Color Wheel Relationships
Create Color Schemes that artists intentionally use in their work
Triad
Complements
Split Complements
Analogous
Monochromatic
Warm, Cool

42. Triad Color Scheme
Creates unity
and balance

43. Complimentary Color Scheme
Creates contrast and interest

44. Split Complementary Color Scheme
Color plus the two
hues on either side
of the color’s complement
Creates contrast

45. Analogous Color Scheme
Creates unity
and harmony

46. Monochromatic Color Scheme
Uses only one hue plus black and/or white

47. Warm Color Scheme Uses only warm colors Colors range from yellow to
                                 
Uses only warm colors
Colors range
from yellow to
red violet
Creates unity

48. Cool Color Scheme Uses only cool colors Colors range from
yellow-green to violet
Creates unity