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ART TUTORIAL Feb. 11
Tutor: Christal-Ann Thompson Richards
Let’s begin with the basics
The Colour Wheel
The Colour Wheel
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Which colour gives what?
What is a Colourist? “Colour posses me. I don’t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: colour and I are one. I am a painter.”
-from Paul Klee’s diary, April 16, 1914
Paul Klee
Continue…Paul Klee who painted the above was a colourist, an Artist who uses colour with great skill. A colourist creates shape and form more by the positioning of colours than by the use of line.
Properties of ColourYour attribute are the texture of your hair or the shape of your eyes. So too does colour have attributes or properties.
Hue: 1st propertyHue is one of those properties. It is the visual quality of objects caused by the amount of light reflected by them. Hues are referred to by there common names, such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.
Value: 2nd propertyThe value of a colour is the lightness or darkness of it. Artist may mix a hue with white to create a tint, a lighter colour value. Or they may mix a hue with black to create a shade, a darker colour value
Intensity: 3rd propertyIntensity is the brightness or dullness of a hue.
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