COP Lecture 5 Notes; Colour Theory

• Colours change when they are placed with other colours; red will look different next to blue compared to red next to yellow
• Tertiary colours sit between secondary and primary colours
• Primary hue talks about pigment
• Johannes Itten identified the primary colours; you can't mix them from any other colours, they are RAW
• Josef Albers; 'All colour is contextual'
• Making something darker or lighter is the art of desaturating 
• Saturation links to luminance 
• Additive colour; light, RGM primaries; CRT monitors
• Subtractive colour; Ink, CMY
• The stages of how we perceive colour; Physical..Physiological..Psychological
• Chromatic values are not consistent
• The eye can be fooled by colour
• Cool and warm tones to represent colour