Color Relationships

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Monochromatic Schemes
Monochromatic Schemes

  • composed of any single hue taken through a range of value or chroma
  • a drawing tool such as a pencil or pastel automatically creates a monochromatic image
  • Grisaille painting was most often used as a preliminary step to plan the tonal values before the colors were overlaid in transparent glazes
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Warm and Cool
Warm and Cool
  • Cool colors suggest quietness, restfulness, and calm
  • Warm colors connote energy and passion
  • develop interest in a painting by placing warm colors and cool colors adjacent to one another
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Colored Light Interactions
Colored Light Interactions
  • Additive color mixing: blending color in the eye rather than pigments; one light is added to another
  • complementary shadow colors; if you have two light sources of different colors shining on the same form, the cast shadow from each light source will be the color of the other source
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Triads
Triads
  • composed of any three basic colors
    • (does not have to be tube colors)
  • each one of those colors goes through a whole set of variations in the picture
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Color Accent
Color Accent
  • an accent attracts the eye to the center of interest
  • a small area of color that is noticeably different from the other colors in the composition
  • usually more highly chromatic than the rest of the picture
  • can also be used to provide relief from large areas of unrelieved hues
  • keep color scheme from becoming too mechanical or predictable

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