Colour Theory- First Session

Within this session with Fred we learnt how colour actually works, and asked the question how do we actually know what colour is? 

Colour is made up of physical components, physiological and psychological  

Different colours have different wavelengths  
Colour is perception, how we interpret light

Rods- convey shades of grey

Cones- allows the brain to presive colour

There are three types of cones 

TYPE 1:  is sensitive to red-orange light, the  

TYPE 2: is sensitive to green light

TYPE 3: is sensitive to blue-violet light.

We can only see three colours Red Green and Blue

Each person sees colour differently

Above is an image of complementy colours, they are at opposite ends of the colour wheel and do not go with each other they in fact cancel each other out. The grey tone in the middle is the tone you will get if you mix two complementry colours together.  

Our world is generally a tersiary colour palette, full of greys, greens and browns. 

Colour and its chromatic value

Hue, Tone and Saturation 

It's colour is its chromatic value they all have hues 

A hue is how we identify colour

Tone/ Luminance- shades and tints

You can make tints by making it paler and adding white

Tone is how dark or light something is

Shade and tint work by the reflection of light. 

Saturation is the purity of the colour 

the way in which we read and value colour. start to base the colour on compassion 

Light has a massive impact, different types of light can effect your prints, as a designer we need to consider where out work will be going to look at the lighting before hand. Indoor lighting ca have yellow tints and the natural light is usually more bright and pure. 

PANTONE 

Pantone is an agreed set of colours. It defines colour, so if you make a print and use pantone you can tell anyone the number code and they can match it. It enables you to control colour, a colour matching system. 

TASK

As a class we were all given a colour and over the christmas break we had to collect as many items that have this colour as possible. 

As a class we then ordered them as a colour wheel around the class, this was more difficult than expected as there was many different tones within each colour. I had to collect yellow, and I found it easiest to order the ones closet to orange and green first and then go from there. 

 Here we picked out the palest and the ones that are closet to orange and green. The oranges one was the pepper, and the closest to green was banana as it was ripening. 

Above are a couple of image of us trying to match it to the pantone swatches. It was also more difficult than expected I found it partially difficult on glossy/shiny surfaces.