The human eye perceives the world around it in color. Shades of color are usually divided into warm and cold. This division is of practical importance, for example, when painting pictures, painting historical miniatures, choosing cosmetics. However, many admit that they cannot distinguish a warm shade from a cold one. How do you learn this?
Necessary
- - gouache;
- - brush;
- - album sheet.
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, know that there are three primary colors: yellow, red, and blue. The first two of them are warm, the last one is cold. All other colors and shades are their derivatives. Whether they are "warm" or "cold" depends on what and in what proportions the base colors are mixed in them. For example, orange is always warm because it comes from the warm primary colors of red and yellow. Blue, on the other hand, is always cold, since it is based on diluted blue. Green is traditionally considered neutral because it is formed from blue and yellow, but shades of green in which one of the colors predominates can be classified as warm or cool depending on the predominant color.
Step 2
Warm colors evoke associations with summer, sun, fire, and cold colors - with winter, snow, ice. Warm shades are based on yellow, while cold ones are perceived as white. If you are strongly influenced by color, you will probably notice that looking at a warm shade, you feel a surge of energy, excitement, and looking at a cold one, you calm down, start thinking rationally. Spatially cold shades are perceived more distant from the viewer than warm ones.
Step 3
Practice mixing primary colors to learn how to better identify how a particular color or shade is formed. To do this, take jars of red, yellow and blue gouache and an album sheet. Use the chromatic circle as a visual aid, examples of which can be found on the Internet. Learn to determine the composition of the color accurately by eye.
Step 4
Keep in mind that the perception of hues is greatly influenced by their color environment. For example, if you put cadmium red and carmine scraps next to each other, the first will seem warm, and the second - cold. A similar example can be cited from another part of the color spectrum: the neighborhood with blue makes violet seem warm, the neighborhood with red makes it cold.
