Colour

                 

Colour

For this task we had to go out and find as many colours around Bath. I would take the pictures with a SLR and put the colours onto a colour wheel. I did this by using Photoshop. I had to match the pictures I took with the correct colour on the colour wheel.

Primary Colours (standard additive)

The primary colours are Red, Yellow and Blue. These can not be created through mixing of other colours, they are colours in there own right.

                                                         

                                                                CMYK colour model

 The CMYK colours (subtractive primary colours) are Magenta. Cyan, Yellow and Key (Black). These colours can be found in a printer because  they can make any colour. You can see from the colour wheel below by mixing a different amount of each primary colour will produce a colour in between the two primary colours chosen, for example by mixing more yellow then cyan will result in a lighter shade of green.

 

  Secondary Colours

The secondary colours are Orange, Purple and Green. You achieve these colours by mixing a equal amount of primary colours together (see below for examples). 

   

Tertiary Colours

By mixing primary colours with secondary colours you get the tertiary colours, (as shown above). 

   

                                                                      Warm/Cool Colours

           

The reason why reds, oranges, yellows and purples are warm colours is because they are colours of fire and the sun. The reason why blues and greens are cool colours is because they are the colours of water and christmas trees.  

 Complementary Colours

Complementary colours are colours that can be paired together and can work well. For example, Christmas is red and green because of the holly berry.