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Colour: Pragya Sharma PGT Fine Arts

The document discusses color theory and the properties and effects of colors. It defines color as a property that produces different sensations through light reflection. Color theory organizes colors on a wheel into primary, secondary, and tertiary categories. Primary colors cannot be created by mixing, while secondary mix two primary and tertiary mix one primary and one secondary. Colors have properties of hue, value, and intensity that impact their brightness and darkness. Colors also have psychological effects that are influenced by factors like warmth, coolness, excitement, and depression.

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Colour: Pragya Sharma PGT Fine Arts

The document discusses color theory and the properties and effects of colors. It defines color as a property that produces different sensations through light reflection. Color theory organizes colors on a wheel into primary, secondary, and tertiary categories. Primary colors cannot be created by mixing, while secondary mix two primary and tertiary mix one primary and one secondary. Colors have properties of hue, value, and intensity that impact their brightness and darkness. Colors also have psychological effects that are influenced by factors like warmth, coolness, excitement, and depression.

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Colour

Pragya Sharma
PGT
Fine Arts
Topics
Definationof colour
Theory of colour
Types of colour
• Properties of colours
• Effects of colours
Defination of colours
• Colour has very important role in human life.
Everything which can be seen only because of its
colour. Every surface has its own quality to reflect or
absorb the light.
• Colour is a property possessed by an object to
produce different sensations with the help of
reflection of light
Theory of Colour
• The color wheel’s roots date back to the mid-1600s when Sir Isaac
Newton’s work with white light led him to the discovery of the visible
spectrum of light. Newton observed the way each color of light would
bend as it passed through the prism. You may have learned the term “ROY
G BIV” (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) in elementary
school science class. “ROY G BIV” was the result of Newton’s discovery.
• In the colour theory Colours are
organized on a colour wheel and
grouped into three categories –
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
colours
Types of Colours
• Primary colours: Which cannot be obtained by mixing of any two
colours. These colours are also known as natural colours becauze they
are found in nature. Red, blue and yellow are the three primary
colours.
• Secondary colours: Which colours obtained by mixing two primary
colours.
Red+ Blue= Violet
Blue + Yellow= Green
Red + Yelllow= Orange
• Tertiary colours: when we mix one primary
and one secondary colour we get a tertiary
colour
• Violet+ Blue= Indigo
• Orange + Red= Saffron
Yellow + Orange=Golden Yellow or
Deep Yellow
• Analogy colours- These are the colours of one category or we can say
that the same type of colours like yellow, orange, lemon Yellow,
cadmium yellow, yellow ochre etc.
• Complimentary and opposite colours: These colours are opposite to each
other in the colour wheel like violet and yellow, orange and blue.
• Hot colours:. The colour which
gives us the effect of heat or
have maximum wavelength
like red and yellow.
• Cool colours: The colours
which gives us the effect of
coolness or have minimum
wavelength like blue, green.
• Neutral colours: The colours which are neither strong or bright nor
have any hot or cold effect are called neutral colours like black,white,
grey, shades of brown.
Properties of Colours
Thera are three properties of colours- Hue, Value and intensity.
Hue- it ia a true colour like- red, yellow, blue, green, voilet, etc.
Value- It is the degree of lightness and darkness of a colour. Adding
white to light the colour which is tint and adding black to dark the
colour. Which is tone like
Red +White= Pink ( tint)
Red + Black= Maroon ( tone)
Intensity- It is the strength of a colour or brightness or dullness of a
colour like magenta is a bright colour and olive green is a dull colour.
Effects of Colours
All the colours have psychological effect
which depends on our feelings. Colours
are used to tell the qualities and feelings
of a person. At every places the colour
does not have the same effect like:
Red- excitement, danger, love, fire, anger,
etc.
Yellow- light, cheerfulness, warmth,
brilliance, etc.
Blue- truth, pleasure, sadness, coolness,
etc.
White- peace, unity, purity, light, etc.
Black- depression, darkness, fear, ego,
evil, sadness, etc.
Green- softness, spring, festivity, growt,
fertility, etc.
Orange- knowledge, bravery, spirituality,
heat, etc.
Violet- royalty, death, cheerfulness,
mystery, etc.

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