ART CLASS NOTES: colour scales & composition

11 Feb 2013: Sonja Huddleston, Sara Burr, Jan Lehde, Linda Gilarski

Online Munsell Hue Test: http://www.colormunki.com/game/huetest_kiosk

5-Step Value Scales: pure saturated hue to white

Thumbnail Sketch:

- scale and size change

- rectangle format: landscape or portrait

- stage format

- golden mean rectangle (composition philosophy aesthetics)

- critical discrimination: rectangle dissection and division

focal points

intersections / tangents / high & low points

symmetry asymmetry

dynamic line / static line

parallel and converging lines

physical vs ghost extension lines

- value gradation and variations

- cross hatching with a pencil on paper

Colour Sphere youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCW0yWjt5lM

Colour Terminology

Colour Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory

Hue (temperature) / value (light to dark) / intensity (saturation) or chromatic purity

Munsell Value Scale 0=black / 5=middle grey / 10=white

visual spectrum (infra red to ultra violet)

Primary Colour Wheel (3-hue wheel): Red (R) / Yellow (Y) / Blue (B)

Secondary Colour Wheel (6-hue wheel): Primaries + Orange (RY) / Green (YB) / Violet (BR)

Tertiary Colour Wheel (12-hue wheel)

Quaternary Colour Wheel (24-hue wheel)

Quinary Colour Wheel (48-hue wheel)

Complimentary Colour Harmonies

Analogous Colour Harmonies

Triadic Harmonies

Split Complimentary

Additive Colour Wheel (for mixing light)

Subtractive Colour Wheel (for mixing pigments and paint)

Colour Interaction (see Josef Albers)

Colour Guru's

Isaac Newton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum

Josef Albers: The Interaction of Color

Albert Munsell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system / 
Munsell Colour Scale Test: http://www.colormunki.com/game/huetest_kiosk

Itten: http://colorwheelco.com/colortheory/ittenscolorwheel.php

Chevreul: 

Phillip Runge's colour sphere 1810

INTERACTION OF COLOR

by Josef Albers

Munsell's links to his 10 principal-hue Colour Theory

Munsell gradated colour scale fun game / test http://www.colormunki.com/game/huetest_kiosk