The world of colours!
“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colors; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.” ― Kahlil Gibran
Figure: A Color Wheel
Primary colors: Colors that cannot be formed by combination or mixing of any other pigments:
Colours... I simply love colours. I have always loved colours. The set of bangles that I have, the collection of earrings... and those nail colors... (oh i love nail art as well but covid19 has put a break on that... keep my nails short and no paint!) And even the vivado simulations and ILAs... Always full of colours! (Vivado is just a software tool I use in office, never mind!).
Painting is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a carrier (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas or a wall. However, when used in an artistic sense it means the use of this activity in combination with drawing, composition, or other aesthetic considerations in order to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner.
Well, who doesn't love colors? The indefinite hues in an evening sky... So mesmerizing! My dream... To capture them in a canvas. Some day... One day. Now... today... I am just learning!
"If one could only catch that true color of nature – the very thought of it drives me mad.” – Andrew Wyeth
Starting from where I had stopped... Paused should be the word! A long pause! Watercolor tubes half used... Poster colors dried up... Time to awaken them... Time to learn water colour painting .. colours...
That's like the literal theory but like any subject painting is also a topic which needs to be learned step by step and of course requires a lot of practice! Painting means using pigments, or for us, colours... There are so many colours in and around us... So many shades like the character of us humans! It's even said that emotions can be expressed in colours... There's color for each mood. But how do we know which colour means what and what colour suits where and where the colours merge split and what not! So, the first step into painting would be colors... Knowing them. After a lot of browsing over the internet... A lot of researching done, here I am, with the color theory, first and foremost subject to master for water colour painting (or for visual arts, in general).
“He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.” – Johannes Itten
COLOR THEORY
Color theory have many definitions and concepts. As a whole, it is a set of rules and guidelines for colour combinations (mixing) and harmony (what works, what doesn’t and how color communicates). It explains how humans perceive color and the visual effects of how colors mix, match or contrast with each other. Other than that the color theory also involves the messages colors communicate and the methods used to replicate color.
In color theory, colors are organized on a color wheel and grouped into 3 categories:
• primary colors
• secondary colors
• tertiary colors
COLOR WHEEL:
With watercolor, it’s possible to create every other color you can think of with just three colors, the primaries: yellow, red, and blue.
Thus, a color wheel consists of the three primary colors - red, yellow, blue - and combinations of them as follows:
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Yellow, Red, Blue
orange (red + yellow)
purple (red + blue)
green (yellow + blue)
yellow-orange
red-orange
red-purple
blue-purple
blue-green
yellow-green
Drawing a line through the center of the wheel separates the warm colors (reds, oranges, yellows) from cool colors (blues, greens, purples).
Any color derived from red for example red-violet, oranges, pinks are warm colors whereas any color that is derived from blue such as greens, purple, blue-violet, turquoise, cobalt, etc. are cool colors.
Yellow is an in-between color and can be warm or cool depending on if it has a tint of red, or tint of blue in it.
(It would be beneficial to keep in mind that warm colors are generally associated with energy, brightness, and action, whereas cool colors are often identified with calm, peace, and serenity.)
These twelve colors can be used to create more shades by using variations of these hues (hues are nothing but the pure color on the color wheel. Just another word for colour.). They are called tints, tones and shades.
A tint is a hue to which white has been added. For example, red + white = pink.
A shade is a hue to which black has been added. For example, red + black = burgundy.
Finally, a tone is a color to which black and white (or grey) have been added. This darkens the original hue while making the color appear more subtle and less intense.
Well, there, we got our colors! Hurrayyyyy!!!👍👏
"The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.” - Henry S. Haskins
Some concepts that would help while working with colors, mainly in regards to the arrangements of colors when doing a piece.
Color combination is everything. It can either ruin the image or make the image attractive!
When we need more contrast in our image we should go for complementary colors. Complementary colors are two colors that are opposite to eachother on the color wheel. For example, red and green (they would bring in strong contrast in our piece).
There are analogous colors which are the three colors which sit next to one another on the color wheel, for example, red, orange and yellow, where one color will dominate, one will support and another will accent.
Any three colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel are called triadic colors. They tend to be very bright and dynamic which creates visual contrast and harmony simultaneously, making each item stand out while making the overall image to stand out.
Well there it is! I guess, we are good to go now. I think more practice is required with the color wheel and tints and shades and tones...
"I put a lot of emphasis on the necessity of continuing to work, that good art practice is a product of practice, practice, practice." - Dianne Bersea
Enough for today though! 🙏
25.05.2021
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