Introduction; Colour

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Hello and welcome to Colour. This is my favourite topic to teach as it combines all written documentation of Colour from theory to history. Colour is part of our everyday life.

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Color affects our emotions and can convey any mood from delight to despair. Because the possibilities of color are endless. The Art of using color well is an open ended and complex discipline, which naturally incorporates many different points of view and poses many different questions. Scientists have tried for centuries to understand what creates colors, and how and why we see them. Color theorists have condensed the infinite number of visible color variations into a few basic formulas and prescribe theories about their relationships. However, it is hard to satisfactorily explain all color phenomena because it's such a complex medium Color is one of the constants in our lives.

We learn, work, live and sometimes even dream in color. From the time we wake up to the time we go to sleep, we live among the ever changing colors around us. Color is a direct result of chemical and physical relationships to lot. Old color is sourced through loss. without loss color does not exist. Color is like the air we breathe.

We don't truly appreciate it or even fully realize it is there until we begin to think about it in a serious context, like decorating graphic arts or any visual medium. Color has always been the designers most powerful tool, versatile and evocative. It is also the cheapest and quickest way of changing An environment. Yet most people find working with color, intimidating, confusing, and even scary, imaginative and satisfying colors generally cost no more than the safe pedestrian color choices. hasn't been saunas will collect paint swatches bother doesn't look at magazine pitches, references, carpet, and textile cuttings then spend hours agonizing over the outcome. And usually, in desperation, they stay within the safe color boundaries by using non descriptive colors, which always include Magnolia, ivory, cream and white and they often end in a disappointing result when mixed together.

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