The colours that we choose are important, as in the modern day the colour you choose represents a certain emotion/feeling, such as blue or green representing cold, whereas red or yellow represent warmth, fire, passion. This idea is taken from the psychology of color;
To make it easier for us to figure it out, there is something called a Colour Wheel;
This colour wheel helps us to understand what is meant by the quote by Marc Chagall. The primary and secondary colours are opposites of eachother, because they are the complete opposite colour of eachother. You then have 'Tertiary' colors, which are those similar to the primary/secondary colour beside it. These are the 'neighbours' in which can be used instead of the primary or secondary, as they are close in colour.
To make it even more confusing, there are then colour palettes, which allow different shades of the colours to be used. These include;
- Monochrome
- Analogous
- Complementary
- Split Complementary
- Triad
The choice of colours placed with eachother can give our eyes a different perception of how something may look. For example;
By looking at the image above, you can see it has been separated into half. The left side's squares look alot brighter, due to the choice of background, and also due to the yellow rectangle placed beside the red one. In reality though, both the grey and red rectangles are of the same colour and shade, but our eyes perceive them as being different because of the colours that they are with. Understanding this will be very important with my own work later on.
There are two types of Colour modes that I will need to remember;
RGB - Monitors
CYMK - Printers
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