Thursday, 13 April 2017

COP 1 Lecture 10 - Colour Theory Part 1

- Questioning colour

- Contextual and dependent on surrounding

- Spectral colour = colour evoked by a single wavelength of light within a visible spectrum


- Single wavelength or narrow band of wavelength generates monochromatic light


- Every wavelength of light perceived as a spectral colour in a continuous spectrum


- White = highly reflective colour

- Sky not blue, pure white light. Short wave lengths reflect off of articles and blue reflected


- Eye contains 2 kinds of receptors, rods and cones
- rods = convey shades of black, white and grey
- cones = allow the brain to perceive colour

- Combination of 2 cones = different colour


- Joseph Albers, Johannes Itten, iconic influences of colour theory


- Primary colours = red, blue and yellow

- RGB, usually screen based


- CYMK, for printing

- Hue, Tone and Saturation

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