Color Systems PAINTING and COLOR DESIGN de Beaufort

1. Color Systems

9. White Light Refracted by a Prism.

12. ADDITIVE COLOR
PROCESS
The mixing of colored lights so that they
shine on a surface, they combine (add) to
make other colors.

13. SUBTRACTIVE COLOR
PROCESS
The mixing of pigments and dyes so that
all colors of light except the color are
absorbed (subtracted).

14. HUE
A name of a color family or an area on the
color wheel.

15. PRIMARY COLORS
In a color system, the basic colors that
cannot be broken down into other colors
and that can be combined to create other
colors.

16. SECONDARY COLORS
The product of mixing two primary colors.

17. TERTIARY COLORS
The products of mixing a primary and
secondary color.

18. TONE
• A color that has gray added to it.

19. TINT
• A color that has white added to it.

20. SHADE
• A color that has black added to it.

23. Colors can have the same value but different hues

25. INTENSITY, SATURATION
The strength or weakness of a color.

26. INTENSITY, SATURATION
The strength or weakness of a color.

27. INTENSITY, SATURATION
The strength or weakness of a color.

29. Simultaneous Contrast

30. Simultaneous Contrast

34. Warm Cool

40. KEY
• Used synonymously with value. In a scale of values,
high-key colors are lighter than colors in the middle
of the scale; low-key colors are darker than the
colors in the middle of the scale.

41. High key

42. Low key

43. OPTICAL COLOR MIXING
Placement of different colors in such a way
that the human eye mixes them to form
new colors.

45. Sandro Botticelli. Detail of Birth of Venus. 1486.
Color Printing: yellow.

46. Sandro Botticelli. Detail of Birth of Venus. 1486.
Color Printing: magenta.

47. Sandro Botticelli. Detail of Birth of Venus. 1486.
Color Printing: yellow and magenta.

48. Sandro Botticelli. Detail of Birth of Venus. 1486.
Color Printing: cyan.

49. Sandro Botticelli. Detail of Birth of Venus. 1486.
Color Printing: yellow, magenta, and cyan.

50. Sandro Botticelli. Detail of Birth of Venus. 1486.
Color Printing: black.

51. Sandro Botticelli. Detail of Birth of Venus. 1486.
Color Printing: yellow, magenta, cyan, and black.

52. Sandro Botticelli. Detail of Birth of Venus. 1486.
Color printing detail.

61. MONOCHROMATIC COLOR
SCHEME
Variations in color based on one hue.

65. ANALOGOUS/ADJACENT
COLOR SCHEME
Variations in color between hues adjacent
to one another on the color wheel.

69. COMPLIMENTARY COLOR
SCHEME
Variations in color based on colors opposite
each other on the color wheel.

72. Vibration

75. COMPLIMENTARY COLOR
SCHEME
NEAR COMPLEMENT

76. TRIAD
Three colors that are equidistant from one
another (form an equilateral triangle) on the
color wheel.

77. TRIAD
Three colors that are equidistant from one
another (form an equilateral triangle) on the
color wheel.

78. TRIAD
Three colors that are equidistant from one
another (form an equilateral triangle) on the
color wheel.

79. TRIAD
Three colors that are equidistant from one
another (form an equilateral triangle) on the
color wheel.

81. SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY

82. SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY

83. ACCENTED ANALAGOUS

84. ACCENTED ANALAGOUS

85. TETRAD
Four colors that are equidistant from one
another (form a square or rectangle) on the
color wheel.

86. TETRAD
Four colors that are equidistant from one
another (form a square or rectangle) on the
color wheel.

87. TETRAD
Dual Complementary

88. TETRAD
Dual Complementary

89. Polychromatic Color
Scheme
Having many colors; random or intuitive
use of color combinations as opposed to
color selection based on a specific color
scheme.

90. Earth Tones/ Designer Colors