Creative Techniques in Colored Pencil, Graphite, and Oil Painting by Winters Veronica

Author:Winters, Veronica [Winters, Veronica]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2013-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

Basic Color Theory

Hue, intensity, and value are the three qualities of every color. Mastering the combination of these qualities plus understanding color temperature is essential to drawing and painting in color.

Hue–means color, such as red, yellow, blue (primary colors). Primary colors can’t be mixed unlike secondary colors (violet, green, and orange).

Chroma–is the purity of a color, such as pure red or pure blue.

Intensity–is the saturation of a color. The color intensity can be changed by adding a small amount of complementary color to a pure hue. The addition of a complementary color neutralizes the color, making it duller. Knowing that the bright colors advance and the dull colors recede in space, artists often use the brighter colors in the focal point and duller hues in the background. By adding black or white to most colors, hues become neutral.

Neutralized color–means less intense color, either grayed or mixed with its complement.

Value–is the relative lightness or darkness of a color (see previous chapter). There is a value scale for any given pure color. Colors should be mixed according to observed values by asking yourself how dark or light that area or object is in comparison to other objects in a painting.

Local color–is the natural color of an object as it appears in normal light (red in a strawberry, green in grass, etc.). Local colors are often applied over its complementary or darker colors in pastel and colored pencil drawing to create a complex color arrangement.

Complements–are colors that are across from each other on the color wheel, like yellow-violet, green-red and blue-orange. Use complements to neutralize bright colors.

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