COLOURS & ITS SOURCES
Colour Prepration from natural sources
We made this video to describe colour preparation.
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Colours form natural Sources
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Colours can be extracted from vegetables, flowers, plants etc. |
Colours : Hue, Tint, Shade & Tone
1. Primary colors
2. Secondary colors
3. Tertiary colors
1.Primary colors- In art (visual art) red ,blue and yellow are primary colors because they can not be obtained by mixing any colors.
2.Secondary colors- Secondary colors are the colors which are created by mixing two primary colors in equal amount. They are violet,green and orange. These are located in between the two primary colors in color wheel .
3.Tertiary colors -Tertiary colors are color which are obtained by both primary and secondary colors. It is the combination of primary and secondary colors.
There are six tertiary colors-
1.Red-orange
2.yellow-orange
3.Yellow-green
4.Blue-green
5.Blue-violet
6.Red-violet
Tints- When white is combined with any colors the color become cold and the result is called When white are mixed with any color they become lighter.
Tones- When gray is combined with any color the result obtained is called tones.
Shade- When black is combined with any colors the object makes darker the result in called shade .like
1.Rust is a shade of orange.
2.Hunter is a shade of green .
3. burgundy is a shade of red .
Complementary colors- complementary colors are present in the color wheel opposite to each other . These scheme look best when warms and cold colors are opposite in each other .
Neutral colors- Black and whites colors are called neutral colors. It is used for how dark or light a color is white is used for lightness and black is used for darkness .
Primary colour
Primary colors- mainly there are two group of primary colours .
1.one group belongs to RGB colour model while another is based on CYMK model . when we talked about raw material (pigment) that can be mixed with each other in different quantity then CYMKmodel is followed . in CYMK model- cyan magenta and yellow is the primary colour because it can not be produced by mixing any other colour material. but by mixing there three colours we can get another three colours thet is know as secondary colour .Red,yellow and blue colours are primary colourand not be created by mixiing other colours . on the countrythey are mixed with one another to produce other colours .in printing and plastic arts magenta (a pinkish red), yellow and cyan(a blue) are used us primary colours because they are better suited to mixing and yield better balanced.