Different types of paint and certain colors are naturally more opaque than others. Oil and acrylic paint are the most opaque paints, but gouache is a type of watercolor also designed for this purpose. Paint is usually mixed very thickly to make it opaque. OPAQUE COLORS Opaque colors are colors that you cannot see through. Different types of paint and certain colors are naturally more transparent than others. When you overlay two transparent colors they will mix to create a third. Transparent paint is applied in what we call a ‘color wash’ in watercolor painting or a ‘color glaze’ in oil or acrylic painting. Watercolor is the most transparent paint, but oil and acrylics can also be thinned for a similar effect. Paint is usually mixed very thinly to make it transparent. TRANSPARENT COLORS Transparent colors are colors that you can see through. This effect is known as Simultaneous Contrast. Therefore, the intensity of a color changes in relation to the color that surrounds it. In our illustration, the three violet rectangles are identical colors but they appear to change when surrounded by different colors. These colors are in harmony with one another.ĬOLOR TINTS A tint describes a color that is mixed with white.ĬOLOR SHADES A shade describes a color that is mixed with black.ĬOLOR INTENSITY Color intensity is the strength or value of a color. The result will be its opposite or ‘complementary’ color.ĪNALOGOUS COLORS Analogous colors sit next to one another on the color wheel. You can work out the opposite color to any primary color by taking the other two primaries and mixing them together. Opposite colors create the maximum contrast with one another.
OPPOSITE and COMPLEMENTARY COLORS Opposite colors are diagonally opposite one another on the color wheel.
TERTIARY COLORS Tertiary colors are more subtle hues which are achieved by mixing a primary and a secondary color that are adjacent on the color wheel. They are achieved by mixing two primary colors together. SECONDARY COLORS Orange, Green and Purple are the secondary colors. These are the three basic colors that are used to mix all hues. PRIMARY COLORS Red, Yellow and Blue are the primary colors. The color wheel is a useful device to help us explain the relationships between Primary, Secondary and Tertiary colors. Hues have a circular order as illustrated in the color wheel above. HUES A hue is one of the colors of the spectrum. THE SPECTRUM The spectrum is the colors of the rainbow arranged in their natural order: Red - Orange - Yellow - Green - Blue - Indigo - Violet. In this lesson we are examining the terms used to describe Subtractive Color. The traditional subtractive primary colors are red, yellow and blue. Subtractive Color involves the mixing of colored paints, pigments, inks and dyes. Additive primary colors are red, green and blue. The colors on a television screen are a good example of this. Additive Color involves the mixing of colored light. ADDITIVE and SUBTRACTIVE COLOR There are two basic color models: Additive Color and Subtractive Color.
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