Project One: Color Wheel Coloring
Color wheel
The Color Wheel
A color wheel is really just the spectrum twisted around so that the violet and red ends are joined. The color wheel is particularly useful for showing how the colors relate to each other and how you can create new colors by mixing two or more colors. The color wheel really consists of a continual gradient of the colors in the spectrum but to make things a little easier I will divide the wheel into twelve distinct colors. Primary Colors Among the colors in the color wheel, there are three colors which are referred to as the primary colors. All other colors can be created by mixing these three colors. The primary colors are, as seen in the figure to the left, red, green and blue. Why red, Green and Blue? This might require a bit more explanation - There really is nothing intrinsically primary about red, green and blue, rather they are just points on thecolor wheel. In fact, in the print industry the primary colors are considered cyan, magenta and yellow. (commonly referred to as cmyk, where k stands for black). Secondary Colors The secondary colors are what you get when you mix any two adjacent primary colors. Red and green give yellow, red and blue give you magenta and a mix of green and blue result in a cyan color. The secondary colors are also the primary colors in the subtractive color system. Tertiary Colors To complete the color wheel we need to add the tertiary colors. The tertiary colors are those which lie in between the primary and secondary colors. As you can see on the color wheel, they are a further blending of adjacent colors. The complete wheel Adding it all together, we get the complete color wheel. The color wheel is the foundation for much of color theory, and memorizing the basic layout of it can help you in trying to pick out pleasing color combinations. http://www.colorsontheweb.com/Color-Theory/The-Color-Wheel |
Color wheel Coloring Project
AssignmentUsing a photograph student will recolor at least 6 different colored parts. Students will choose a photo of their own interest. The photo should have at least 6 different items or parts . The parts should be colored according to the color wheel. Use the tutorial to the left to complete the assignment.
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Project Two: Hand Coloring
HANDCOLORING -
PAINTING ON BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS Why and what: Handcoloring (also known as handtinting) has been around for nearly as long as photography itself, and first gained its popularity as the ONLY way to make a color photograph. The practice of hand-coloring black-and-white photographs can be traced all the way back to the days of daguerreotypes, which predates Instagram creative filters by about 180-plus years. In a bid to add life to the putty-like tonality of many of the earliest print technologies, photographers would very carefully brush thin layers of color pigments mixed with gum arabic (or quicker-drying mixtures containing alcohol) onto the cheeks, hair, and outerwear of portrait sitters. With the advent of paper print processes and tintypes, the use of transparent photo oils, dyes, and pencils became the media of choice for bringing color to black-and-white photographs.Now, with color photography so firmly entrenched, many people find it very odd that anyone still handcolors photographs. From time to time I'm asked, "Why go to all that trouble when you could just shoot color film?" Early research and efforts to produce color photographs aroused public demand and eventually led to the popularity of handcolored photographs, which proved to be the simplest and most effective way for photographers to satisfy public desire. Introduced in Europe in the 1840s, the practice of hand coloring photographs became more refined and widespread in Japan. Shae DeTar is an American photographer and artist, known for her wildly evocative, colorful and fiercely bold hand-colored photograph-painting hybrids, shot in surreal locations. She adds layers of paint to emphasize color, texture and a fantastical element.
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More about Color
Colour is often one of the most exciting components of a painting. In both figurative and abstract painting, colour can be used for its decorative beauty, to create mood and to express or arouse an emotion. In nature and in art, colour has a profound effect on the viewer. color has three properties that make color what it is. Color consists of three main integral parts: hue, value and saturation (also called “chroma”)
hue: Hue is more specifically described by the dominant pigment /wavelength and is the first item we refer to (i.e. “yellow”) This is the we learned above and in the color wheel project, value/ tone: Value” page, value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. It indicates the quantity of light reflected. When referring to pigments, dark values with black added are called “shades” of the given hue name. Light values with white pigment added are called “tints” of the hue name. saturation (also called “chroma”): Saturation defines the brilliance and intensity of a color. When a pigment hue is “toned,” both white and black (grey) are added to the color to reduce the color’s saturation. More simply put, saturation can be thought in purity, How pure the pigment is. |
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Assignment DescriptionAssignment
Choose a black and white "Still life" photo. Pick one with objects, something that you can paint to improve the focus and narrative. Then paint on a layer above. The project must
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