Brand New!! A Compendium Of Colour

This is the minute inward my compendium posts most Popular Art Topics from the Archives. This 1 is all most colour.  Feel gratis to bookmark it!

(ie I've got my caput downward writing my mass most drawing in addition to sketching!)

It's perhaps worth mentioning that my weblog posts most color in addition to color theory every bit good got the thumbs upwards from James Gurney inward the Internet Resources most Colour identified inward his mass "Color in addition to Light - H5N1 Guide for the Realist Painter" which I'm every bit good really happy to recommend!
makingamark.blogspot.com - Various resources for artists, including summaries most color theory amongst additional linksJames Gurney
Goethe Colour Diagramsin the starting fourth dimension plate of Zür Farbenlehre (Theory of Colors) (1810)
courtesy WebExhibits - Colour Vision in addition to Art
Curated yesteryear Michael Douma

What is Colour? (9th June 2008) 

Sets out the 7 ways I've decided to evidence in addition to answers the query "What is Colour?"

Colour - a scientific perspective (10 June 2008)

This post service focuses on the scientific discipline of color – inward unproblematic terms:
  • The defining characteristics of colour
  • How color is made
  • How nosotros come across in addition to remember most colour

Colour - a materials perspective #1 - pigments in addition to dyes (25 June 2008) 

This post service provides a materials perspective on color for artists in addition to a basic overview of pigments in addition to dyes.

Colour - pigments in addition to related colours (26 June 2008)

I desire a tabular array which tells me all most unlike colours - in addition to relates pigment to color names to chemic names in addition to and then explains what all that means. But tin I discovery 1 on the internet? (Note: I was good advanced amongst this tabular array simply in addition to then lost if when a figurer blew upwards in addition to haven't had the see to evidence in addition to reinstate it!)
Every pigment has an international classification in addition to standardised hollo simply non every color is what it says it is.

Hues - a systems perspective (8th July 2008) 

A detailed examination of systems which explain primary colours

Describing a color infinite - there's to a greater extent than than 1 color wheel! (10 July 2008) 

About a Matrix of Theories most Colour Space - which is the method I've adopted to categorise some of the people who accept tried push clit color inward damage of spatial relationships - to push clit a color space.

Complementary Colours in addition to mixing neutral colours (15 July 2008) 

How to position complementary colours inward the context of unlike shapes which explicate color theory
This post service is an endeavor to redress the residuum on the paucity of online data most analogous colours - simply it every bit good recommends other sources of fifty-fifty meliorate advice in addition to information!

Colour Schemes: Split Complementaries, Triads in addition to Tetrads (18 July 2008) 

Discusses in addition to explains three colour schemes used yesteryear professional person artists:
  • Split Complementary - a color plus the 2 colours either side of its complementary colour 
  • Triad - whatsoever 3 colours which are equidistant on the color wheel
  • Tetrad - whatsoever 4 colours which are equidistant on the color wheel

Symbolic Colour (24 July 2008) 

This post service provides an overview of some of the meanings of unlike colours - in addition to the origins of some of those meanings.

Why your colours onscreen don't expect the same when printed (10 March 2011) 

Have you lot e'er wondered why your images onscreen don't come upwards out looking the same when printed? This post service discusses: how the CMYK model works; why RGB files don't expect similar CMYK files and how to convert an RGB file to a CMYK file for printing purposes
Lots of photos of pigments in addition to some links to websites which push clit in addition to tape Artists' Colourmen.

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