Project: Building a library of colours
Exercise: Primary and Secondary Colours
- Primary: Red, Yellow, Blue
- Secondary: Green, Violet, Orange
- Tertiary: Red Violet, Violet blue, Blue Green, Green Yellow, Yellow Orange, Orange Red
- Cool colours: recede, tranquil, calm, passive
- Warm colours: advance, passion, energy, active
The colour wheel (original graphic from: http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/color_theory_terms_1.htm with bits added on):
A weekend searching around the house, a walk about town (and just one or two pictures from my archive):
Primary colours
- Yellow – found in abundance… food, signage, also very apparent in greens (adjusting ‘yellows’ in Photoshop has a huge effect on grass, foliage…)
- Red – very common, found in lots of food stuffs, signage
- Blue – difficult to find in nature, extremely rare in food
Secondary colours
- Green – lots of food stuffs, foliage (of course)
- Orange – lots of orange foods
- Purple – feminine (?), rare in foods…
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