BASIC PRINCIPLES OF COLOR

PRIMARY COLORS


- are the root of every other hue imaginable. The primary pigments used in the manufacture of paint come from the pure source element of that Hue. There are no other pigments blended in to alter the formula.

- The primary colors consist of 3 unique colors, red-yellow-blue. When mixing these 3 colors hues, at least in theory, all the other hues of the color wheel, including black can be created.

- In paint pigments, pure Yellow, pure Red, and pure Blue are the only hues that can't be created by mixing any other colors together. Printer inks and digital primaries are referred to as Yellow, Magenta and Cyan.

Color Associations:

Primaries red, blue, yellow. The ultimate contrast of hue and the greatest luminosity. Primaries express fundamental qualities, folk art, embroidery, costumes, etc. They are exuberant, decorative, tonic, vigorous, decisive.

	Red- emotional and active, danger, love, warmth, life
	Blue- passive, soft, cool, watery
	Yellow- warm, vibrant, the closest to light and warmth

SECONDARY COLORS

- When you combine any two of the Pure Primary Hues, you get three new mixtures called Secondary Colors.

- Think of the three Secondaries as the Children in the family of colors.

- When any one primary color is mixed with another a secondary color effect is produced. 3 secondary colors are produced from the mixing of one primary color with another. These colors are orange-green-violet. These secondary colors are also known as complementary colors.

Yellow + Red = ORANGE

Red + Blue = VIOLET or PURPLE

Blue + Yellow = GREEN

Color Associations:

Secondaries: green, orange, violet The second most contrast of hue, the intensity of colors diminishes as hues are further away from the primaries.

TERTIARY COLORS

- When you mix a Primary and its nearest Secondary on the Basic Color Wheel you create six new mixtures called Tertiary colors.

- Think of the six Tertiary Colors as the Grandchildren in the family of colors, since their genetic makeup combines a Primary and Secondary color.

- These colors are created when mixing one secondary and one primary color. i.e. blue + violet = blue violet. Three or more separate colors are mixed (one primary and one secondary A– the combination of two primaries), and in our color wheel each tertiary color being created will be an equal combination of the two colors , left and right, surrounding an open segment. The tertiary colors are, yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue violet, blue-green, and yellow-green.

Yellow + Orange = YELLOW-ORANGE

Red + Orange = RED-ORANGE
Red + Violet = RED-VIOLET
Blue + Violet = BLUE-VIOLET
Blue + Green = BLUE-GREEN
Yellow + Green = YELLOW-GREEN

Color Associations:

Mixing the primaries and the secondaries to create tertiary colors. Cosmic universality, celestial, medieval manuscripts, stained glass, other religious art.

Tertiary colors have less distinctive color contrasts and often imply the concrete, mundane, and earthly simplicity.

Families of Musical Instruments

Musical instruments are grouped into families based on how they make sounds. In an orchestra, musicians sit together in these family groupings. But not every instrument fits neatly into a group.

Brass Family

Brass instruments are made of brass or some other metal and make sound when air is blown inside. The musician's lips must buzz, as though making a "raspberry" noise against the mouthpiece. Air then vibrates inside the instrument, which produces a sound.

Brass instruments include trumpet, trombone, tuba, French horn, cornet, and bugle.

Percussion Family

Most percussion instruments make sounds when they are hit, such as a drum or a tambourine. Others are shaken, such as maracas, and still others may be rubbed, scratched, or whatever else will make the instrument vibrate and thus produce a sound. 

Percussion instruments include drums, cymbals, triangle, chimes, tam tam, glockenspiel, timpani, bells, and xylophone.

String Family

Yes, the sounds of string instruments come from their strings. The strings may be plucked, as in a guitar or harp; bowed, as with a cello or a violin; or struck, as with a dulcimer. This creates a vibration that causes a unique sound.

Stringed instruments include the violin, viola, cello, bass, harp, and dulcimer.

Woodwind Family

Woodwind instruments produce sound when air (wind) is blown inside. Air might be blown across an edge, as with a flute; between a reed and a surface, as with a clarinet; or between two reeds, as with a bassoon. The sound happens when the air vibrates inside.

Woodwind instruments include flute, piccolo, clarinet, recorder, bassoon, and oboe.

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QUOTATIONS :)

"Painting is by nature a luminous language." - Robert Delaunay

"Like emotions, colours are a reflection of life." - Janice Glennaway

"Colour is fun, colour is just plain gorgeous, a gourmet meal for the eye, the window of the soul." - Rachel Wolf.

"To draw is to make a shape and movement in time." - Stuart Davis

"The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing" - Hans Hofmann

ELEMENTS OF ART :)

The building blocks or ingredients of art.

SPACE- the distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things

FORM- a 3-dimensional objects, or something in a 2-dimensional artwork that appears to be 3-dimensional.

SHAPE- an enclosed area defined and determined by other art elements; 2-dimensional.

VALUE- the lightness or darknessof a color.

LINE- a mark with length and direction. a continuous mark made on a surface by a moving point.

COLOR- consist of hue (another word for color). intensity(brightness), and value (lightness or darkness).

TEXTURE- the surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. textures maybe actual or implied.