1. [Color]
[Noviembre-Diciembre]
[Artes y Humanidades]

2. Color is……
• the element of art that refers to reflected
light.

3. Color theory?
• If color theory is simplified, it can be broken
down into 3 parts- The color wheel, color
value, and color schemes. Each part of color
theory builds on the previous. Undrestanding
each section of color theory fully, will help you
better understand the importance of color
theory on the whole.

4. Color Wheel..
• The color wheel was
developed by Sir Isaac
Newton by taking the
color spectrum and
bending it into a
circle. If you follow
around the color
wheel, you will find
the same order of the
color spectrum- red,
orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo(blue-
violet), and violet.

5. Primary Colors
• Red,
• Yellow
• Blue
• All colors are
made out of
these three
colors.

6. • Secondary
Colors
• The mixture of
yellow and blue
makes GREEN,
• The mixture of
yellow and red
makes ORANGE,
• The mixture of
red and blue
makes PURPLE.

7. • Tertiary colors
are intermediate
colors made out
of secondary and
primary colors. A
tertiary color is a
color made by
mixing one
primary color
with one
secondary color

8. Value
• Value is the lightness or darkness of the color.
The lightest value of the color is almost white
and the darkest value is almost black.

9. Value
There are two types of
value:
• Tint
• Shade
Tint
• Adding white to a
color creates a tint.
Adding black creates a
shade. For example
pink is a tint of red; Shade
maroon is a shade of
red. See the tints and
shades of blue

10. Color Schemes…
Color schemes are ways colors are put together in
an intelligent way

11. Color Schemes…
Monochromatic- literally means one (mono) color (chroma). So a
monochromatic
color scheme is made up of one color and it’s shades and tints.

12. Color Schemes…
Analogous colors- are colors that are next to each other on the
color wheel.
When used as a color scheme, analogous colors can be dramatic. Ex. Blue,
blue-green, green, and yellow-green; red, red-purple, purple, blue-purple

13. Color Schemes…
Analogous colors

14. Color Schemes…
Complementary colors- are colors found directly across from
each other on the color wheel. Complementary color scheme provide
strong contrast. Ex. Blue and orange,
red and green, yellow-green and red-purple

15. Color Schemes…
Complementary Colors

16. Color Schemes…
Color triads- consist of three colors found on the color
wheel that are equally spaced
apart from each other. Ex. Red, blue and yellow or orange,
green and purple.

17. Color Schemes…

18. Color Schemes…
Warm colors- colors that are usually associated with
warm things. Ex. Red, yellow,
orange

19. Color Schemes…
Cool colors- colors that are usually associated with
cool things. Ex. Blue, purple, green

20. [Texture]
[Noviembre-Diciembre]
[Artes y Humanidades]

21. Texture…
Is the tactile quality of a surface, such as rough, smooth,
sticky, fuzzy, soft or slick. Like line, texture can be real or
implied. A real texture is one that can be felt, such as a piece
of sandpaper, a woven mat, or animal fur. In an artwork, real
texture can be created through thickly applied paint, glossy
glazes, and gluing objects to the surface. Implied texture is an
illusion of texture created by an artist. As you can see below,
this artist created a sense of smooth water and prickly grass.
Let´s check some examples…|

22. Soft
Fuzzy
Rough

23. Using Texture in an artwork…
Goodman, Sidney
The Artist's
Parents in the
Store
1973-75
Oil on canvas
58 1/2 x 77 in
(148.6 x 195.6
cm)
The Butler
Institute of
American Art,
Youngstown,
Ohio

24. Kiefer, Anselm
Your Golden
Hair, Margarete
1981
Oil, emulsion,
and straw on
canvas
51 3/16 x 67 in.
(130 x 170 cm)
Collection
Sanders,
Amsterdam

25. • Willem de Kooning
American, born
Netherlands, 1904–1997
• Excavation, 1950
• Oil on canvas
205.7 x 254.6 cm (81 x
100 1/4 in.), unframed
Signed: recto: "de
Kooning" (bottom right
in black paint); not
inscribed on verso
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G.
Logan Purchase Prize
Fund; restricted gifts of
Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Noah
Goldowsky, Jr., 1952.1