February 14, 2015

Here's a fun exercise for you.  We know that color has four components:  hue, value, intensity and temperature.  When we see two different colors side by side, it's a good brain challenge to name what makes them different from each other.  Is it the hue, the value, the intensity or the temperature, or is it a combination of these? 

In the chart below, there are five rows and five columns of color.  Column A is a root hue to those in columns b, c, and d.  Begin with row 1.  Name the ways in which b is different from A, then how c is different from A and next how d is different from A.  In each instance, you are comparing the color with A.  Each row of colors is the same hue, so the differences will be in value, intensity, temperature or a combination.

The answers will be found at the bottom of this page under PPPS.  Have fun!



Happy painting,
Dianne

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P.P.P.S.
Row 1: b-value; c-value, intensity; d-value, intensity, temperature
Row 2: b-intensity (temperature, ok);, c-value, temperature; d-value ( intenstity is ok)
Row 3: b-value, temperature, c-value, intensity, temperature; d-value, intensity,temperature.
Roe 4: b-value, intensity, temperature; c-value, intensity; d-value (temperature ok)
Row 5: b-value; c-value (intensity ok); d-intensity, temperature (value ok)

Note:  When an intensity is changed, if often effects the temperature because a complement (which is always a different temperature) is added.  And when a value is darkened or lightened, we feel the intensity to be changed because it has been neutralized by the addition of a neutral.
    

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