colour theory part 2

Natural colours are produced by primary and secondary colours mixing together to make a chromatic value of 0.

We don't see pure colours, its based on chromatic values:

-Juxtaposition, balancing lights and darks with the colours.

-tonal perception, high and low contrast.

-Weight, colours do have weight which we see visual.

The amount of any colour effects how we see colour, for example, the slide we saw had yellow and violet which changed the way we viewed both colours depending on intensity of stripes of both colours. we either see yellow more but if a lot of purple strips were placed over the yellow strips, it will hurt our eyes.

There are temperatures to colours, like cool and warm. we can produce really interesting effects by controlling the temperatures such as making warm shades and cool highlights. colours can control what happens when different colours can make gradients from temperatures of cool and warm colours.

There are a lot of ways to mess with colours and produce interesting concepts which allows us experiment on how colours are applied to objects in a scene, also what is needed to change a colour by placing another colour besides it.

one example from my experience is giving an extra shade which is the opposite tertiary and this add a highlight which either can be cool or warm. Most of the time manipulating colours to make it look like another colour is difficult. By doing so you can add colours which dont belong with the colour. For example making an orange colour can be done by using highlights of yellow and shadows of red with another shade of purple tricks you eye to believe the object is orange but is actually a mix of colours, and this also produces depth from these colours. Where as if you want to showcase orange by just using light oranges and dark oranges and grey's makes it less interesting and unattractive because the hue is not changing.

The neutral colours come when you want to change from one colour to another from values. to go from Red to Blue you need the neutral colour which is a dark grey and this will allow the transition into the other colour and will make the colours complementary.