Cmpe 583
Special Topics in Video, Animation & Graphics
3.2
  ARTISTS` THEORY OF COLOR

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Color Agent and Color Effect

The 12 Hue Color Circle

The Seven Color Contrasts

Contrast of Hue

Light-Dark Contrast

Cold-Warm Contrast

Complementary Contrast

Simultaneous Contrast

Contrast of Saturation

Contrast of Extension

Color Mixing and Expression

NOTE: All the examples and the explanatory text in this section is taken from Ittens` excellent book on color [1].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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References

Johannes Itten, The Art of Color, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Original 1961

B.M.Whelan, Color Harmony, Thames Hudson, 1994

D.Russell, Color Works: The Red Book, Quarto Publishing, 1990