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The document discusses color theory, including the origin of color as demonstrated by Isaac Newton and how rainbows are formed. It explains how we perceive color through light absorption and reflection, and outlines primary and secondary colors in both pigment and light. Additionally, it introduces the color wheel, properties of colors, and includes an exercise for creating a color wheel.

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Color theory

The document discusses color theory, including the origin of color as demonstrated by Isaac Newton and how rainbows are formed. It explains how we perceive color through light absorption and reflection, and outlines primary and secondary colors in both pigment and light. Additionally, it introduces the color wheel, properties of colors, and includes an exercise for creating a color wheel.

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Color theory

teoría del color

Arts 2024/2025 CPI Soledad Puértolas


What is colour?

Is the colour a property of objects? Do things always have the same


colour?
The origin of colour

in 1660, the scientist Isaac


Newton demonstrated that
clear white light was
composed of seven visible
colors.

He divided a ray of sunlight


into different colours using a
crystal prism.
How rainbows are made
Human eye cannot see all colours
How do we see colour?
We see objects with a specific
colour because they absorb
certain colours (or
wavelengths) and reflect
others.

So, we can say that colour


doesn’t exist by itself, it
depends on the light and we
see an electromagnetic
radiation and interpret it as
colour.
Light colour simulator

Let’s make an
experiment with
colour and light!
The primary and secondary colours
Primary colours are impossible to make by mixing other colours together.

In pigment colours, the primaries are:

YELLOW

CYAN BLUE

MAGENTA

And the secondaries are a mixture of


two primary colours: red, green and
blue.
Colours of light and pigment colours
The primary colours of light are The primary pigment colours are
green, red and blue cyan blue, magenta and yellow
The colour wheel Organises the colours and their combinations
around a circle.
Warm and cool colours

The colour wheel is divided into


two basic colour ranges:
cool and warm.

The colours next to blue are


cool: blue, green and purple.

The colours next to red are


warm: magenta, red, orange
and yellow.
The properties of colours
Hue: the name that we give each colour
Tono: el nombre que le damos al color

Saturation: the degree of purity of a colour.


Saturación: el grado de pureza del color.

Value or brightness: the degree of lightness


and darkness of the colour.
Valor o luminosidad: su grado de luz u
oscuridad.
Here is an example of how we can play with the colours in Photopea. We’re using
a frame from the comic ‘Comiclowns’ by the Malavida team from Zaragoza.
Next exercise: colour wheel
Tomorrow we will paint a colour
wheel. We will need:
● set square (escuadra y
cartabón)
● a compass (compás)
● brushes (pinceles)
● a glass or tupperware for the
water (recipiente para el agua)
● a palette (paleta)
● clothes for painting (ropa que
se pueda manchar)
More information
Three interesting documentaries about colours in Spanish

1-how we see colour 2-how we make colour 3-psychology of colour

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