Color Theory Syllabus - DOC File
Required Text:
Color Theory Made Easy: A New Approach to Color Theory and How to Apply It to Mixing Paints (Paperback)
By Jim Ames
ISBN: 0823007545
Blick Art Materials - 650 Ave of Americas, Store 1, New York, NY 10002 (212) 524-9611.
Pencil, ruler, kneaded or plastic eraser, any used CD to use for tracing, 3 - 11"x14" Primed Canvas Boards, Acrylic nylon brushes (not natural hair), plastic pallet or pallet paper, pallet knife,
Paints: Liquitex brand Acrylic paint Titanium White in 4.65 fl oz size. (white is your primer)
The remaining paints need to be in 2 fl oz size:
Subtractive colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.
Additive colors: Red, Green and Blue.
(All paints are "Heavy Body")
The best for color matching are:
Brilliant Blue, Medium Magenta, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Mars Black
Cadmium Red, Light Green Permanent, Cobolt Blue.
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/colorwheel.htm
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Light Dispersion by a prism.
Isaac Newton's famous experiments w/ a prism.
(In class experiment)
2
Color wheel has both Additive and Subtractive Colors.
Color Wheel (photoshop file)
3
Additive Colors (Light & Computer/TV screens)
Red + Green light = Yellow
Red + Blue light appears as magenta
Green + Blue light appears as cyan
Additive mixture of red, green and blue = white
light
4
Subtractive Colors (Paint and printer ink, CMYK)
Magenta + Yellow = Red
Yellow + Cyan = Green
Cyan + Magenta = Blue
Subtractive mixture of cyan, magenta and yellow = black or dk brown.
5
We will be painting in class in Acrylic paint on Canvas Boards as described earlier in class.
Everyone must bring to class Required Materials above.
6
Photoshop's Out of Gamut (or color range). This is why you get color shifting in print.
7
Paper stock can also give you color shifting.
Matte vs Glossy finish.
8
Hue, Value and Saturation.
In Photoshop: Adjustment layer
9
Photoshop's Channel Mixer
(destructive editing)
10
(requires Adobe LightRoom, Apple's Aperture or a Photoshop plugin)
11
High Dynamic Range Images (HDR) - (Non destructive editing)
The HDR technique blends three or more photographs taken at different exposures or using different filters together to produce a single photograph or image that blurs the lines of reality by then tone mapping the images.
