COLOR
COLOR
Black and White are values, not colors
In Physics, black and white are not considered colors. Both black and white don’t have any specific wavelength, they cannot be considered as colors. White is the combination of all wavelengths of visible light, while black is the absence of visible light. In physics, color is nothing but a wavelength of visible light. Thus, black and white are not colors.
How we see color
ADDITIVE COLOR THEORY – RGB – CONSIDERS WHITE A COLOR
a color is made by mixing light of two or more colors. Adding all three primary colors of additive colors, that is, red, green, and blue, gives white. Thus, white is a color according to this color theory. Whereas black is nothing but absence of light, hence it is not considered as a color. Computer monitors and the television are examples of this system.
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR – CMYK�
The subtractive color theory involves the mixing of paints, pigments, and dyes. The concepts in additive and subtractive theory are exactly opposite. The primary colors of this system are red, blue, and yellow (in art) or magenta, cyan, and yellow (printing industry). These when mixed, form the color black. Hence black is a color in this system. Whereas white is considered as the absence of color.
Color wheel we learn in art
What is Value?
The next word on our list that an artist needs to understand to use color to its fullest potential is value. Value is a measure of how light or dark any given hue is. A value scale is an arrangement of the ten major values in a line from light to dark, with the number 0 representing white, and the number 10 representing black.
There are actually an infinite number of values between 0 and 10, but the human eye cannot distinguish them readily. So for all practical purposes, 10 values is enough.
A color value scale looks like this:
To determine the value of a color that you’re studying, imagine where it would fall on a black and white value scale. A primary red is usually around a value 5, primary yellow is a value 2, and primary blue is a value 6 or 7 if your value scale runs from white-1 to black-10. It’s important to understand that you cannot change a color value without changing its saturation, and sometimes even its hue.
How to apply these principles of color to ceramics?
like function and aesthetics
In Ceramics, what choices do we make surrounding surface quality of color?
For instance, when you go to the paint store, you choose SHEEN for particular reason(s).
1) FUNCTION
2) and/or AESTHETICS
What does color communicate/ The psychology of color…
What processes do we use to create/find color in ceramics?
Selected Ceramic Artists that utilize color as content
Catie Miller
En Iwamura
gwendolyn yoppolo
Birdie boone
Christina west
Jackie head
Kyle Johns
Peter Pincus
Jeremy Brooks
Project #1: COLOR�
In progress (green) critique: Sept 13th
Finished critique: Oct 6th