Colours

Use of colour

Warm colours - red, oranges and brown stand out against cool colours like blue and green.

"Colour is the place where our brain and the universe meet" Paul Cezanne

Photos of buildings taken at dusk will simultaneously emit and catch light.

Colour has the power to link near and afar, hard and soft, coarse and tender. Colour is light, the rainbow of colours we see through a prism or after a rainstorm are the hues of the visible spectrum.

Colour travels on wavelengths of either red, blue or green. The human eye can perceive light of wavelengths between 400 and 700 nanometres.

Colour can be used to represent thins as they are seen in the natural work or they can be used In a subjective way based on feelings or interpretation.

A colour wheel will show us how colours relate to each other and what happens when they are mixed.

There are primary, secondary and tertiary colours so described by the amount of different colours mixed together to produce the final colour.

When working with colour you need to take into consideration hue, tone, saturation, temperature and overtone.