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February 2nd, 2012 | 
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Understanding fundamental color relationships enables you to recognize and then skillfully harmonize the underlying. In other words, your ability with color grows beyond a common color coordinating mindset. Enhanced understanding grants you the choice to create simply with color —or— more complexly.
Through the exploration of color relationships, Johannes Itten was one of the first people to organize contrasts and identify them as harmonious color strategies. Itten’s Seven Color Contrasts:
- Contrast of Saturation
- Contrast of Light and Dark (value)
- Contrast of Extension
- Contrast of Complements
- Simultaneous Contrast
- Contrast of Hue
- Contrast of Warm and Cool
I mentioned in this post that I depend on color theory the way my seventh grade art teacher taught me to use it — as guidance and inspiration. In this podcast we discuss the origins of Color Theory and ask the question, “Why do we feel such a need to order and understand color?”
You are now privy to a pre-podcast discussion. As we were discussing what we wanted to cover in the upcoming podcast on Color Theory, this subject came up:
Memorizing color theories will not make you a color expert. If you study them, it simply means you know more than you did before and are obligated to be more aware.
Color theory is not a prescription or a recipe. It is theory. The definition of the word “theory” tempts the naturally curious: “hypothesis, belief”.
Many people do not have a good grasp of basic color theory terms — and that includes many paint professionals. A clearly defined color vocabulary will sharpen your color expertise and help you navigate the paint store more efficiently.
Hue and color do not mean the same thing in every context. Confusion sets in when you also consider widely held opinion that says hue and color are interchangeable terms.
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