Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Gallery Hop 4.06.2011

Our Itinerary:


1. Kavi Gupta Gallery to see Claire Sherman


2. 3 walls to see Ben Russell 


3. Rhona Hoffman Gallery to see Huma Bhabha


4. Carrie Secrist gallery to see  Douglas C. Bloom




Color 101

Ah...the joy of color!



The Color wheel


The Primary Colors:
a set of colors from which other colors are made


The Secondary Colors: 
a set of colors made from primary colors



The Tertiary Colors:
a set of colors made from the combination of one pirmary and one secondary color
i.e. blue-green, red-orange, blue-violet etc.




Colors are either warm or cool:


Warm colors tend to move forward in space, while cool colors receede.  






Hue is the name of a color:
"Cadmium Red Medium"



Straight "from the tube" colors are at thier highest Saturation.  

Colors are manipulated in a varitey of ways to take the level of saturation down. 

Tints, Tones, Shades

Tints are any color plus white:




Shades are any color plus black:


(Tones are any color plus grey)



Color Relationships

Complimentary Colors are colors opposite one another on the color wheel.  The three main pairs of compliments are:


When placed together, they produce an intense relationship.




Analogous colors are any 3 colors next to one another on the color wheel:


This produces a very harmonious relationship.



Monochromatic is any color plus its variations produced using black,white, and/or grey




Color Context:
Colors can appear to look differently depending on their context.