COLORES

Read "Launching the Imagination" (Color: pages 38-54). Then start a new post in this forum with your name in the title and discuss the following questions:

1. How do scientists approach color differently than artists?
2. What kind of artists use additive color? What about subtractive color?
3. Based on the commonly used 12 step color wheel, what are the primary colors? The secondary colors?
4. What are the cool colors? And the warm colors? Which tend to recede and which advance?
5. What are the three basic characteristics of color?
6. Explain the difference between HUE vs. SATURATION.
7. What is the purpose of "color schemes"?                                                                                                 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   
   1.) Scientists are more sciency... I know that's not a word but I'll explain myself. Scientist approach color with the question of: how did that color come to be? What colors did someone use to make the color the way it is? Artists approach color with more of an abstract mind... they think of moods the colors remind them of. For instance: Red could be anger or frustration. Green could be vibrant and full of life. Blue could be sadness and confusion.
   
   2.) Modern artists-- mostly painters and printers use subtractive color. Psychologists and scientists use additive color.
   
   3.) The primary colors include: Red, Yellow, Blue. The secondary colors would be: Green, Orange, Purple.
   
   4.)Cool colors include: Blue, Some shades of green, purple. Warm colors include: Yellow, Orange, Red. Warm colors tend to advance because they are louder and are more chaotic. The cool colors, on the other hand, tend to recede only because they are quieter and chiller colors. But this all depends on how the composition is used.
   
   5.) The three basic characteristics of color would be: Hue, Value, Intensity.
   
   6.) Hue refers to the shade of the color and is determined by it's wavelength, Saturation focuses on how vivid or how intense a color is.
   
   7.) The purpose of "color schemes" is so the artist can make clear decisions on what colors to stick to in his/her project. Without the usage of a color scheme, the piece could be chaotic and hard to follow if there are a million different colors.