egg plate for palette

colors to use for practice

decribe a color using hue (describes the “color”), value (light/dark), and intensity/saturation.

primary, secondary, tertiary colors

color temperature - warm or cool bias

local color, atmospheric color, colors that advance and retreat,

tint, shade, tone

greying a color - neutralizing

intensifying colors

monochrome, analogous, complementary, split complementary, complementary analogous, primary triads, secondary triads,

color harmony

color in light and shadow

Color relativity - only as good as the color it is next to

Color only works well as value

  • Iight is opaque / shadow is transparent

  • Cool light - warm reflected light

  • Warm light - cool reflected light

  • Color and light 

  • “You are the light of the world”

  • “Your Blah and colorless without light”

  • Color theory

    • True colors - realistically represent subject matter (descriptive)

    • Optical colors - affected by surroundings - light, reflection

    • Arbitrary colors - fauvist, simply to express feeling or mood

    • Space, movement, tonality

    • Other meaning of color in culture

    • Linguistic relativity hypothesis

    • Color symbolism throughout the ages

    • Color in language

    • Color in climate zones e.r.Jaensch

    • The permanence of a color

    • Fugitive - how quickly a color fades

    • HA - hue angle

    • HS - hue shift

    • BL - Blossom

    • DF - diffusion

    • LF - lightfastness

    • VR - value range

    • TR - transparency

    • GR - Granulation

    • ST - staining