Emily Jolly took the class today and discussed color, how to describe it and the different ways to produce it.
She stated that if you have six basic colors you could mix all other colors from this. The six basic colors are cad red hue,(warm) permanent rose,(cool) ultramarine, blue(warm), Windsor blue green hue(cool), CAD, yellow mid(warm), lemon yellow(cool).
She went on to say that colors come out of these tubes as a saturated color meaning a clear, clean color. When these colors are mixed with others, they become unsaturated. With painting, the saturated colors appear to be to the foreground and unsaturated are in the background generally.
All colors have a cool or warm tone to them as noted above. Warm tones will have yellow added to them and cool tones will have blue added to them. When painting a neutral image, such as sand on the beach or a tree trunk, it can become much more interesting if a warm tone is laid next to a cool tone of the same color and blended on the edges. John Singer Sergeant painting of the oyster catchers was a good example of this. If you go into wikiart.org and look up John Singer, Sergeant, you can see this painting and practice using the warm and cool effects that he has used to learn to use warm and cool colors effectively in your art.
