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Introduction:
Welcome back to another issue on oil painting. This time lets us study colors. every art student should have knowledge about color theory. Many people think that they know all about colors, but when they need to take a decision based on color their analysis and result are far less.
Their will be many situation during your painting session that you will use colors to solve many compositional problems. Some times colors helps more than lines to express your theme of the painting.
Colors: Technically colors are pigments of colors, that are manufactured in large quantities from various raw materials. Colors is always a subject of mystery for scientist and color theorist. Many color wheels were designed in the past but only a few are used today.
The three primaries:
There are three primaries that will produce the magical list of colors. The three primaries are red, yellow and blue. The combination of these colors produce the following secondary colors. Refer figure 1 color wheel.
Red + Yellow = Orange
Red + Blue = Violet
Blue + Yellow = Green
The combination of secondary with primaries produces tertiary colors. And at the same time color has temperatures. – warm colors and cool colors. Warm colors are from red to yellow in the color wheel. These colors brings the subject closer to the viewer. Where as the cool colors are from blue to green in the color wheel . These colors sends the subjects far away from the viewer.
To understand the color theory and color mixing lets us try an experiment. Take a canvas of size 1 feet by 1 feet. This is enough for this experiment. Using pencil make a make a grid of 2 cm by 2 cm. As shown in figure 2.
Apply the three primaries, secondary and the tertiary colors in each grid. Once you have done it, take any color and mix with another color and see the final mix. Apply it in the next grid. Complete all the grid and view it from a distance. You will be able to understand how many colors can be produced and how beautiful the grid looks.
