Thursday, July 21, 2011

Colors colors and more colors



There were days when I learnt about color theory-

1. The greyscale shown here is a nine step greyscale- colors moving from white to black. Creating this was not an especially easy task, but none the less it was amazing to see while mixing colors, that there could be SO many shades of grey!

2. Shown here is the color wheel with 12 colors- each of which was measured for perfectness by the value of it's corresponding color on the grey scale!


Learning about these colors and how to create them, gave me an idea about measuring color in terms of its value on a scale- and the inconceivable number of combinations and colors possible!
Soon after I started noticing magazines and books- and what would have only been a red to me before this exercise, now looked like many many different reds in the same image- because now I realized the NUMEROUS colors possible by just altering the proportions of the base colors!

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