Topic: Mode of Art

AR104 ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHICS

P R E S E N T E D B Y: A R . S A FA S E R A J
Unit-2 Content
Colour theory
Colour compositions
shades and shadows
warm and cool colours, tones, etc.
Understanding scale and proportion
Colour Theory
Color theory is the study of how colors work together and
how they affect our emotions and perceptions.
Color theory enables you to pick colors that go well
together and convey the right mood or message in your
work.
Colour Theory
Sir Isaac Newton established color theory when he invented the color wheel in 1666. Newton
understood colors as human perceptions—not absolute qualities—of wavelengths of light. By
systematically categorizing colors, he defined three groups:
Primary (red, blue, yellow).
Secondary (mixes of primary colors).
A secondary colour is a colour made by mixing of two primary colours in a given colour space.
Tertiary (or intermediate—mixes of primary and secondary colors).
Hue, Value and Saturation
Hue is the attribute of color that distinguishes it as
red, blue, green or any other specific color on the
color wheel.
Value represents a color's relative lightness or
darkness or grayscale and it’s crucial for creating
contrast and depth in visual art.
Saturation, also known as chroma or intensity,
refers to the purity and vividness of a color, ranging
from fully saturated (vibrant) to desaturated
(grayed).
Monochromatic:
Take one hue and create
other elements from
different shades and tints of
it.
Analogous:
Use three colors located beside one
another on the color wheel (e.g.,
orange, yellow-orange and yellow to
show sunlight). A variant is to mix
white with these to form a “high-key”
analogous color scheme (e.g.,
flames).
Complementary:

Use “opposite color” pairs—

e.g., blue/yellow—to
maximize contrast.
Split-
Complementary (or Compou
nd Harmony):

Add colors from either side of your

complementary color pair to soften
the contrast.
Triadic:

Take three equally distant colors on the

color wheel (i.e., 120° apart: e.g.,
red/blue/yellow). These colors may not be
vibrant, but the scheme can be as it
maintains harmony and high contrast. It’s
easier to make visually appealing designs
with this scheme than with a
complementary scheme.
Tetradic:
Take four colors that are two
sets of complementary pairs
(e.g.,
orange/yellow/blue/violet) and
choose one dominant color. This
allows rich, interesting designs.
However, watch
the balance between warm and
cool colors.
Square:
•A variant of tetradic; you find four
colors evenly spaced on the color
wheel (i.e., 90° apart). Unlike
tetradic, square schemes can work
well if you use all four colors evenly.
Munsell colour system
Munsell color system is a color space that
specifies colors based on three properties of
color: hue (basic color), chroma (color intensity), and
value (lightness). It was created by Albert H. Munsell in
the first decade of the 20th century and adopted by
the United States Department of Agriculture(USDA) as
the official color system for soil research in the 1930s.

Hue
Value
Chroma
SCALE & PROPORTION
Scale and proportion play very important roles for architecture.
Proportion refers to the proper and harmonious relation of one part
to another or to the whole, while scale refers to the size of
something compared to a reference standard or to the size of
something else (like a human being).
"Proportion" refers to the relative size of visual elements within an
image. It also refers to the equality between two ratios in which the
first of the four terms divided by the second equals the third divided
by the fourth.
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