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All About Color
| Color is one of the most important and fundamental aspects of a painting. The color choices you make not only affect the accurate representation of your subject, but they also influence the emotional reaction elicited from the viewer. For example, red is associated with passion and anger, blue with calm and melancholy, and yellow with joy and comfort. And your choice of colors will determine whether your painting is interpreted as dramatic and vibrant, cool and refreshing, or warm and comforting. Having a basic understanding of the way colors relate to and interact with one another is essential to conveying the mood of your painting.
Color Basics
When mixing your own colors, it’s important to have a basic knowledge of color relationships. The primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) are the three basic colors that all other colors are derived from, and they can’t be created by mixing any other colors. Each combination of two primary colors results in a secondary color (purple, green, and orange), and a combination of a primary and a secondary color results in a tertiary color (such as red-orange, or yellow-green). Another term you’ll want to become familiar with is hue, which refers to the color group or family (such as red) rather than the specific color (such as alizarin crimson and cadmium red light, which are both of a red hue.
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