Learning The Advanced Color Theory

By Patty Goff


If one is in the field of arts, then one of the most important lessons that he will be learning would be the color theory. This is extremely important because it would teach the student how to mix colors until he is able to get the end result that he would want. If one is already an experienced artist, he will be learning the advanced color theory.

Now for those who do not know, the basic theory is revolved around the color wheel that is created by Sir Isaac Newton. This wheel shows how the primary colors would mix in order to form secondary colors. The primary colors are blue, yellow, and red and if they are mixed together, they form the other colors of the spectrum.

Now after learning the basics, one will be moving on to the advanced lessons where he will encounter a little bit more computations. Now basically he will be learning about shades, brightness, and other things. However, the most basic things that he will at least learn would be the hue, chromaticity or chroma, saturation level, the value, and luminance.

Now on the top of the list of concepts to learn, there would be the hue. The the three primary colors that were mentioned above can be distinguished by measurement of hue. The hue is actually just the amount of light that is emitted from colors and it measures the strength of these colors.

The second concept that would be taught to the students would be the chroma which measures how colorful a pigment is. Now this is strongly related to the hue because it actually depends on how strong the hue is. Now if one would say that the hue is weak in a particular color, then it is known to be more colorful and vice versa.

The next concept that one will be learning about would be saturation or simply put, intensity. Now the intensity means actually the level of the strength of brightness of a color which would also measure how much impact it has on the eyes. Now colors that are known to have high saturation are any colors that would revolve around yellow and red.

After that, one will then be taught about value. Now the value actually measures brightness as a whole. If one pigment is bright, then it possesses a high value level as compared to one that is dark.

The very last concept on the list that will be taught would be luminance. Now in order to measure luminance, one will first be using a mathematical calculation which involves getting the average of a group of colors and using a unit that is known as intensity per unit of the source. Measuring this is actually quite like measuring saturation but it has a lot more calculations.

So basically, those are some of the things that one will be learning if he will be taking up advanced lessons. The basics would concentrate more on primary colors and how to mix them. The higher lessons will concentrate on the details and actual measurements of color.




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