Colour Theory

Colour Theory

The reason as to why I am doing an entry on colour theory is not to be the queen nerd or to bore you stiffless but for me it is one of the core focuses I have used to guide me with my experimentation practices for my series of posters, in which colour theory has enabled me to looked at strategy and reason for my choice of colour scheme, making me refer back n forth to help me with the majority of my decisions on experimental design concepts. 

Now incase you're wondering, Colour Theory is an important thing to learn for artists, Graphic designers, illustrators etc as it is something that has made art grow strength to strength and put it this way everything you look at these days is designed, a lot of designs we find graphic designers create, packaging, posters, advertisement, motion picture etc all have elements of colour. 

Colour Theory Brain Storm

I for one have an undying love for Colour theory as a subject to talk about and generally, I find it interesting and for a budding Graphic designer, colour theory is an important subject to cover. Its also interesting to learn and it helps you know what colours work together and which ones don't which is an important thing to learn for a designer. 

Chromatography and prism

Colour was discovered by Sir Issac Newton, through a scientific experiment called Chromatography and the prism experiment.  

You can try this by putting pen ink on a piece of paper and putting water onto the ink and you'll see the different pigments in the colour, it works best with a blue or a black biro. 

This is how RGB colour is created through light.

What is interesting with this glass prism science experiment, say if you did a spinner with RGB colours (Red, Green, Blue) or a back of a disk is a very good example is if you spin that quite fast, the colour would all go white because its colour that creates the light. 

Here is A quote from Isaac Newton about colour: