COLOR!

What gives an apple its red color? How is

color produced?

How we see color

Color Mixing

Additive Color Mixing

- Mixing Light

Subtractive Color
Mixing Mixing
Pigments

Color Mixing Demos

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/light/lightandcolor.html

Additive Color Mixing Demo

http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/Java/emission/Java%20Classes/emission.html

Color Wheel
Additive Primaries CMY
Subtractive Primaries RBG
Complementary Colors

The development of the theory of color by scientists such

as Michel-Eugene Chevreul contributed to the color choices
and painting style of many artists in the late 1800s. In his
1839 book The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colors,
Chevreul noted that the intensity of a color is affected by its
relationship to a neighboring color.
a. complementary colors
b. analogous colors
c. value contrast

Chevreul worked in the dyeing department of a tapestry factory and

noticed that images on tapestry illustrated several types of optical
mixing.

Impression: Sunrise 1873 by Claude Monet

oil on canvas

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte , 1884 - 86 by Georges Seurat

oil on canvas

Photomicrograph of
the paint surface of
Sunday Afternoon on
La Grande Jatte

Chuck Close
utilizes the
concept of
optical mixing in
his work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xyMdjqIshw

The Green Stripe, 1905 by Henri Matisse

oil on canvas

Boston Cremes, 1969, Wayne Thiebaud, acrylic &

gouache over a color reproduction

Girl With Ice Cream

Cone 1963
by Wayne Thiebaud
Oil on Canvas

Back to color mixing! - Examples of Additive Color Mixing

(Mixing Light)

TV and Computer Screens

Theater Lights
Pointillism

Newtons Disc

Pointillism

The optical effects of a matte vs a glossy paint surface. Which of

the diagrams below represents a matte surface?

Abstract Painting Blue, 1953 by Ad Reinhardt

oil on canvas

Colored Objects in Colored Light

What color will the yellow ball be unsaturated blue light?

One last item

Paper chromatography can be

used to separate dyes in ink
(Lab)

Varnished painted surface

Painted surface