Color is a powerful element along with the other elements. It has very extensive features and impressive qualities. It is very important to know the effective composition involved in the design and fine arts. Color is the well known term that is applicable to the entire subject—-red, yellow, orange, green, violet, blue, white and black and all the other combinations present.
‘Hue’ is the appropriate word suitable for for referring a pectrum of colors. Any notable color can be described in terms of the value and its hue. Moreover, various psychological and physical phenomena combine together affecting our perception towards a color.
‘Value’ is the term used to describe the darkness or lightness of a color. It indeed is a vital for an artist or a designer in the way it designs the spatial illusions. The contrast of a value isolates the objects in the space, while the value gradation suggests contour and mass of the contiguous surface.
Hue is a relative word used for the pure colors of a spectrum that are usually referred as red, yellow, orange, blue, violet, green that do appear in the rainbow or a hue. In fact, all the existing hues can be mixed and combined from the three fundamental hues called as the primaries. The speculative resultant will be black when all the primary pigments are mixed with each other. Therefore the pigment mixture often is called as subtractive mixture.
The primaries comprises of three hues from which all the other hues can be created. Primary colors have 2 commonly used definitions: Painters primaries consisting of red, yellow and blue, Printer primaries consisting of magenta, yellow and cyan and Light Primaries consisting of red, green and blue.
Complements are the colors that stand contrary to one another on a hue circle. When a complement is mixed with another complement in the paint, the resultant tone de-saturates or dulls the hues. These opposite pairs can even be traced with respect to their relative coolness and warmth. The cool-warm contrast of the hue can cause an image to appear to recede or advance. For instance, in a 15th century painting, warm reds of the doublet of a man and the cap of his son reinforce the placement cues in order to make the figures to appear very close. On the contrary, the cool variants of the sky and the sea suggest a great distance.
Few of the color effects occur in only in the brain and eye of the viewer and not the physical components of the pigments or light waves. The illusions are very dominant however and have got a tremendous impact on our reflection to the color.
When tiny particles of various colors are mixed, optical mixture occurs; this kind of combination differs from the pigment mixture based on the light primaries. Optical mixture, however, vary from a light mixture where the primaries will combine to white, and from the pigment combination the primaries combine to black.
Optical mixture can be felt when designing the textiles. It can also be experienced in natural objects, printed color pictures and in color television.
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