How does light and color inform art making? What are these art elements used for within an art making context?

1. Chapter 7
Light
&
Color

2. LIGHT
• We see light through
waves of energy
traveling through the
air that are recognized
by light and color
sensitive receptors in
our eyes.

3. • Light moves in
straight lines, a
SHADOW results
from something
blocking the light.

4. Representing the Effects of Light
• Realistic
• Expressive
• Emphasis

5. Atmospheric Perspective

6. Expressive use of light

7. Emphasis

8. CHIAROSCURO
• In drawing and
painting, the use of
light and dark to create
the effect of three-
dimensional, modeled
surfaces

9. Modeling
• modeling. in drawing,
painting, and
printmaking, the
rendering of a form,
usually by means of
hatching or
chiaroscuro, to create
the illusion of a three-
dimensional form

10. Value
• key. The relative
lightness or darkness
of a picture or the
colors employed in it;
used in preference to
value

11. Categories of Light

18. • Tenebrism--violent
chiaroscuro, dark
manner used to lend
mood or emotional
expression, typical of
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Drawing at a Window

20. Dramatic use of light and dark

23. COLOR
• light from the sun, is
made of colors, and
colors are different
types of light
recognized by their
own wavelengths

24. • The color of anything
depends on the type of
light sent to our eyes

25. COLOR WHEEL
• A circular arrangement
of hues based on one
of a number of various
color theories

26. Primary colors
• Cannot be mixed from
any other colors
• Red, yellow, blue

27. Secondary colors
• Mixture of two
primaries
• Orange, green, violet

28. Intermediate Colors
• Mixture of primary
and neighboring
secondary colors
• Yellow-orange, blue-
green, etc.
• Also referred to as
tertiary colors

29. Color Schemes
• Monochromatic: one color with black & white
• Complementary:directly opposite each other on
the color wheel
• Polychromatic:a variety of hues
• Analogous:next to each other on the color wheel

32. Using Color in Representational Art
• Local color
• Perceptual color
• Optical mix
• arbitrarily

33. Local
color
Perceptual color

34. Optical color mixing

35. Arbitrary color

36. Symbolic Use of Color