Prague National Gallery

I have visited National Gallery in Prague. I photographed arts which had distinctively different colors.

"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites." - Marc Chagall.

"Limitations motivate creativity." - Sean Adams.

"If one says "red" (the name of the color) and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different." - Josef Albers

Proportion and Saturation (Color Design Workbook, p.77)

Left column is pair of complement color and right column is double triads (green, red-orange, violet).

Colors on color wheel

I was curious how designers use colors. I took some arts and put used colors in on the color wheel. Here is a small analysis about colors:
Tom Eckersley:

Peter Grundy:

Joanna Neborsky:

Emmi Salonen:

Playing with colors in Illustrator, landscapes

Exercise: understanding color

According to Munker-white effect I made two version of the combinations of two color, one with white background and the second with nearly black background. It was not easy task to made combinations of colors to ideas as it looked. I had problems to find out which two colors could represent the ideas. For example: Creative is orange, so I used the color wheel (http://colorschemedesigner.com/), I choose orange and the most beautiful combination (for me) was with adjacent red color. On the contrary, the idea Reasonable was the hardest for me, I could not imagine what combination could be fine for it. I thought that the blue is knowledge, intelligence and yellow is intellect, wisdom, so I used here the combination of complement colors blue-yellow.

After a time when I looked at the Creative idea it seemed to me very dull.

Here help me these books:
COLOR DESIGN, Adams Morioka and Terry Stone 2006
COLOR HARMONY, Tina Sutton and Bride M. Whelan 2004
TEXTURING AND PAINTING , Owen Demers, 2002

Munker-White Effect

Source: book Color Design Workbook, Adams Morioka and Terry Stone: Even though the blue bars are identical, when surrounded by different colors such as white or black, they appear to be completely different hues.

Webpages about colour mixing

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

http://www.colourlovers.com/

http://kuler.adobe.com/#

Playing with colours

 

Color theory another website

http://www.writedesignonline.com/resources/design/rules/color.html

Tint and shades, Wilhelm von Bezold

A tint is a hue mixed with white (lighter appearance). A shade is mix with black to make hue darker.

History of color wheel

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/05/08/history-of-the-color-wheel/

Barbaba Simmons, tip of the month: the 12 color wheel

Barbara explains how to understand color wheel. She builds the wheel step by step by painting the color herself. Very useful introduction into the color mixing.

http://www.artistbarbarasimmons.com/art/tips/0904.html
http://www.artistbarbarasimmons.com/art/tips/1004.html
http://www.artistbarbarasimmons.com/art/tips/1104.html

Another colour wheels

http://www.realcolorwheel.com/colorwheel.htm

Understanding colour, Itten colour wheel