Tham khảo tài liệu 'color mixing the van wyk way - phần 2', văn hoá - nghệ thuật, điêu khắc - hội họa phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | The In-the-Beginning Of Color Mixing Now that you have become acquainted with the basics of color don t let them overwhelm you. As is true when mastering anything color mixing too can be learned in simple stages. The best place to start being better color mixers is to learn a way to mix the right color of things such as skies skin trees apples sunlight and on and on. The way is to sneak up on a good mixture one that records the important color characteristics of a subject s appearance. Let s take them one at a time. First you have to see all the colored things in this world as versions of the spectrum colors. Many of these are obvious Blue sky red apple yellow lemon. Many objects however are not colored as obviously. Identifying them as spectrum colors then is more difficult. For example what spectrum colors are the following Copper wood skin silver rust rocks sand clouds You have to record them as colors because your palette does not have copper color wood color rust color etc. Your palette only has versions of spectrum colors on it and these objects colors are hiding out in them. Copper is an orange wood is a yellow rust is a red. As painters you must identify your subjects colors. That s a beginning. Next you have to inspect the tone of the color that you have decided the subject is meaning how light or dark the subject s color looks in its surroundings. Another consideration is the color s intensity which describes a color as bright brilliant dull or drab. Students often confuse intensity with lone but when you realize that a color can be light and bright like a lemon or light and dull like yellow beach sand you ll refrain from making this mistake. The final characteristic to analyze about a subject s color is its hue. This is the subtlety of the color. To illustrate a flesh color that is orange in color light in tone medium bright in intensity can be reddish in hue or more yellowish in hue. The hue of a color also describes its temperature. An example of this
