Monday, May 24, 2010

Decorative Painting


Would you like to live in a world of dull,  Vibrant beautiful colors makes for all the visual beauty found in nature. Artists have always tried to replicate the real world through their paintings and drawings. Artistically we use color to bring life to the flat one dimensional elements to our drawings and paintings. basic hues of the color wheel is as follows: Red, Orange, Yellow,Colors are described in several ways. First a color has a name. Is the color pure or desaturated? Finally the color has a value or lightness.

Colors have a degree of purity of hue. Next, a color has a level of color brightness or dullness. The value of a color is how bright or dull it appears. A color’s intensity can be lowered by adding White to the color.
A tint is a color with White added to the color. color wheel represents all the colors: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary.  primary color is not created by mixing other colors. two primary colors, such as Blue and Red. mixture of these two colors will make Purple, a secondary color.  On the color wheel complimentary colors are located opposite each other on the wheel. Analogous colors are found close together on the color wheel. color wheel is divided into ranges that are visually active or passive. Passive colors recede when put against the active colors.

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