Saturday, October 25, 2014

Learning The Advanced Color Theory

By Patty Goff


If one is in the field of arts, then one of the most important lessons that he will be learning would be the color theory. This is extremely important because it would teach the student how to mix colors until he is able to get the end result that he would want. If one is already an experienced artist, he will be learning the advanced color theory.

Now for those who do not know, the basic theory is revolved around the color wheel that is created by Sir Isaac Newton. This wheel shows how the primary colors would mix in order to form secondary colors. The primary colors are blue, yellow, and red and if they are mixed together, they form the other colors of the spectrum.

Now after learning the basics, one will be moving on to the advanced lessons where he will encounter a little bit more computations. Now basically he will be learning about shades, brightness, and other things. However, the most basic things that he will at least learn would be the hue, chromaticity or chroma, saturation level, the value, and luminance.

Now the very first concept that one will learn about would be the hue. Now in a nutshell, the hue is the measurement on how much one primary color differs from the other two. This would actually be measured on how much light the primary colors give off and how strong they are.

The next thing to learn about would be chromaticism which would describe how colorful a color actually is. The chromaticity of a pigment will actually depend on how strong its hue is. If it has a minimum hue, it will be more colorful but if it has a maximum hue, it leans more to the side of black, white, or gray.

The next thing that will be taught would be the saturation or in simple terms, the intensity. Now intensity simply means the amount of brightness that a certain shade produces and how strong it is to the eyes. Some colors that would have high saturation would be red, yellow, and other secondary colors that would contain these primary ones.

The second to the last concept is known as value. Now value is the actual measurement of the brightness. When one would say that a certain shade has a high value, he would mean that the shade has a high level of brightness.

The final concept that would be taught is the concept of luminance. Now the measurement of luminance is actually connected to the value and the saturation except the luminance deals a lot with mathematical formulas with its measurements. The luminance is measured in intensity per unit and can be calculated by getting the average of a few colors.

So basically, those are some of the things that one will be learning if he will be taking up advanced lessons. The basics would concentrate more on primary colors and how to mix them. The higher lessons will concentrate on the details and actual measurements of color.




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