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The Impact Of Advanced Color Theory

By Alta Alexander


There are many paints that are available in the markets. In order to achieve favorable paints that are required to perform painting to give certain results, mixing of different paints is carried out. Mixing of the concoctions is carefully done where certain criterion are adhered to ensure the correct outcome is realized. This process of mixing paints to form new colors is referred to as advanced color theory.

Many theories have been developed over time. Despite having some similar components, this theory is very useful and should be studied. It deals with classification of dyes where by it gives two major groups in which any available dye can fall in. These groups are the primary and secondary pigments. Research found out that the primary category comprised of three commonly used Chroma which are red, green and blue. This grouped forms the backbone of studying chromatography.

The other category composed of several dyes that are initially made from the primary ones. They include magenta, cyan, and yellow among others. It is important to note that the dyes included in this category do not originally exist. They are formed from the primary dyes through mixing of different paints in some set ratios.

During the performance of experiments and writing down of the theory, some assumption were made to make their models more relevant. One of the major assumption that was used is that most paints used in the study are miscible and form solutions that have even distribution of pigments. Unlike the case, this is not true in reality since paints have different densities which make them not to mix easily. To defend their route they said that paints cannot mix only in presence of an impurity which affects its molecular structure.

It was found that individual perception is what influences how we see things. When different objects are painted, a glance at them generates some formation of mental judgment of how they look like. This is brought about by the light reflected from them that meets our eyes. Theories found that light from outside of objects appear green while that coming from the interior side is more of magenta.

Any painter or designer needs to have a deep understanding on this theory. This will be useful in color selection that coordinate well with the surrounding of objects being painted. Paints can also be made from mixing the available ones in proper units rather than incurring more in purchasing certain paints.

Some traits were found to be unique for different paints. One of this trait is ability to give off light. Light colored paints have high reflective ability thus they appear brighter. Dull colored paints absorb more light and reflect less. To increase the amount reflected they are combined with white which is very reflective.

Different paints have different levels of saturation. This is defined as a measure of how a color appears when illuminated with a special light. This is conducted to find out which paints appear closely related to grey. Those which are more like grey are termed as unsaturated while the rest are said to be saturated.




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