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Visual Language (Composition Elements (Colour (The Colour Wheel (Types of…

- - - - Colour is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye. Our modern understanding of light and colour begins with Isaac Newton and a series of experiments that he publishes in 1672.
    - - Charles Augustus Young showed with an experiment called additive synthesis of colour that we could obtain white light by mixing the three light colours fully saturated that are green, red and blue.
    - - The colour that a surface displays comes from the parts of the visible spectrum that aren't absorbed. Subtractive mixture is the opposite of additive synthesis of colour. The prymary colours of subtractive mixture (yellow, magenta and cyan) make black.
    - - What is?
        
        The colour wheel is a colour circle, based on the primary colours (colours that can't be mixed by any combination of other colours). Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular diagram of colours in 1666.
      - Types of colours
        
        Secondary Colours
        
        Green, orange and purple.
        
        Tertiary Colours
        
        Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green and yellow-green.
        
        Primary Colours
        
        Magenta, yellow and blue.
      - Complementary Colours
        
        Colours that are opposite each other on the colour
        wheel are considered to be complementary colours.
    - - What is?
        
        How colour behaves in relation to other colours and shapes is a complex area of colour theory.
      - Warm and Cold Colours
        
        The colour circle can be divided into:
        
        Warm Colours
        
        Warm colours are vivid and energetic, and tend
        to advance in space.
        
        Cold Colours
        
        Cold colours give an impression of
        calm, and create a soothing impression.
        
        Neutral Colours
        
        White, black and grey are considered to be neutral.