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Basic Color Theory     
        & Principles - 1 -     
     

Content:

1. About Color
2. The 'Color Wheel'
3. Basic Color Terms
4. Warm & Cool Colors
5. Color Relationship
6. Color Perception
7. Mixing a Practical Color-Chart
8. (soon new content)

1. About 'Color'

If you think about Pink Floyd's front-cover from 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' than you can imagine from what color is made. You see on this cover a beam of white light which is transformed into a rainbow on its way passing through a prism. The white beam is split into its different frequencies of light waves. Each of the light waves has its own color scheme in the color spectrum. Together and next to each other they form a rainbow or 'the spectrum'.
But Pink Floyd had not invented the light - they invented their own music which sometimes visualise the color spectrum in an acoustic way.

On this page we will only talk about the colors which are decisive for an artist who is willing to understand what in his terms 'color' means and how it works in his decisions to use it. Artists and scientists have tried to cross the borders between their theories of color. Artist had tried to evolve the 'scientific' aspect of color theories in their work - scientists had tried to apply color theories in the artist's perception of color.

All painters use colors to depict their subjects matter. So let us have a look how this colors work. In the first step we will have a closer look on the way how colors are built up from each other.

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