Friday 6 February 2015

Understanding Colour: Broken or Tertiary Colours

In this exercise I made a scale from orange red (vermillion) to green blue (cerulean) and a second scale from orange to violet. White was mixed with the combinations to try to maintain equal tones throughout. It can be seen from the subsequent greyscale photograph, that my attempt to maintain constant tonal value wash't really successful - there is really quite a lot of tonal variation here. 


The middle part of the scale shows loss of chroma - these are broken or tertiary colours. They are greys although they are not completely achromatic.


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