The Colour
- 1. Colour
- 2. Colour • Origin of the colour • Mixing colours • Colour families and expressiveness of the colour
- 3. Origin of the colour What is the colour? A) a material’s quality B) paint colour and colouring C) an impulse the brain produces as the result of a light stimulus
- 4. Origin of the colour Colour is an impulse the brain produces as the result of a light stimulus.
- 5. Origin of the colour How do we see colours? To perceive the colour, we need three elements: The sense of Light Objects sight
- 6. Origin of the colour The colour perception was basing of Light- refracting phenomena. Light divide into colours when it goes though a triangular glass prism
- 7. Origin of the colour How do we see colours? Coloured objects are only a visual impression. All objects transmit a sense of colour because their surfaces absorb white light and reflect the colour we
- 8. Origin of the colour How do we see colours? This picture explain how we receive colour thanks a light- sensitive cell, Rods and Cones.
- 9. Mixing colours We can talk about two type of colour • Coloured lights • Coloured pigments
- 10. Mixing colours Coloured pigments All the paint colours that exist made from coloured powder (pigments) and a binder (agglutinant) •Pigments: Origin animal, mineral vegetable and artificial •Agglutinant: makes de coloured powder stick
- 11. Mixing colours Coloured pigments Depending on the type of binder we use, we had different techniques: •Dry techniques: coloured pencils, wax crayons,… •Wet techniques: Watercolours, temperas, acrylic or oil-based paints
- 12. Mixing colours Coloured pigments There are three primary colour: cyan, yellow and magenta You can't get them by mixing other colours. When we mix two primary colours we obtain a secondary colours: green, red, blue
- 13. Colours families A simply way to classify or choose colours when creating a work art, is to separate them into families. •Cold colour family: blue, green, purpos,.. •Warm colour family: Yellow, orange, red…
- 14. Practice Exercises The expressiveness of the colour Colour can express feeling and ideas. I propose you a practice exercise. Look the different pictures and associate three or four adjectives or nouns.
- 15. Practice Exercises The expressiveness of the colour
- 16. Practice Exercises The expressiveness of the colour sad crazy cold aggressive warm calm happy loneliness death life light gold faith freedom sweet positive bitter party richness danger spiritual sensual mysteriously simple
- 17. Thank you for your attention.