Color Interaction Flashcards
(21 cards)
Accidental color
Phantom or ghost image of a complementary color after looking at a highly saturated color for a long period of time
Advancing color
Warm color that appears to advance or lie in front of the picture plane
Retreating color
Often a cool color (or any color) that appears to recede from the picture plane
Optical mixing
Two adjacent colors seen at a distance are mixed by the eye to form another color
Pointillism
Example of optical mixing
Push-pull
Effect that occurs when two high-chroma complementary colors are adjacent to one another
Color look like vibrate
Retina fatigue
Caused by retina exposure to high-chroma colors for long periods of time
Make colors to be brighter or paler than they actually are
Immediate color environment
How you see the color
Where the color is located
Colors should be mixed over a neutral table like black or grey
Lighting environment
Light affect the way a color looks
Try to mix in light similar to the theatre light - normally incandescent light
Paint medium
Affect the way colors are mixing
Cool colors
Purple
Green
Blue
Warm colors
Red
Orange
Yellow
Earth colors
Bt Umber
Raw Sienna
Raw Umber
Yellow Orchre
Paint is made of…
Pigment
Vehicle
Binder
Pigment
Ground material that give the paint its color
Vehicle
Liquid that causes the paint to flow
Also a solvent for the paint
It evaporates
Example: water base paint, water = base
Binder
Glue that hold the pigment in the paint
Holds the pigments onto a surface
Iddings
Soy-based paint
No very stable binder
Can be resolved with water
Weak binder
Let the light through
Super saturated paints
Acrylic binder
Made to be diluted with water
High color saturation
Cover large areas with little paint
Off Broadway’s
Vinyl acrylic binder
Work horse of scenic paints
