https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/Recent content in Color and Design on Teddy Rook Bookhttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpghttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpgHugoenhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/elements-overview/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/elements-overview/Line, shape, form, space, value, texture and color are the elements of art: the parts every picture is built from. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/line-element/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/line-element/A line is a mark longer than it is wide. Lines can be actual or implied, and they can outline, show direction and suggest movement or calm. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/shape-form/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/shape-form/Shapes are flat areas, geometric or organic; forms have three dimensions, actual in sculpture or implied by shading in a picture. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/space/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/space/Space is the area around and between things: positive and negative space on the surface, and the illusion of depth in a picture. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/value-element/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/value-element/Value is lightness and darkness. It shows form and light and creates contrast, with or without color. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/texture-element/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/texture-element/Actual texture can be touched (thick paint, carved wood); implied texture only looks rough, smooth or soft. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/color-element/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/color-element/Color is what we see when light of different wavelengths reaches our eyes. Artists describe it by hue, value and saturation. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/hue-value-saturation/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/hue-value-saturation/Hue is the color family (red, blue). Value is how light or dark. Saturation, also called intensity or chroma, is how pure or grayed it is. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/color-wheel/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/color-wheel/The painter's traditional wheel puts red, yellow and blue as primaries, orange, green and violet between them, and six tertiaries in the gaps. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/tertiary-colors/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/tertiary-colors/A tertiary color mixes a primary with the secondary beside it. Its name puts the primary first: red-orange, yellow-green, blue-violet. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/tints-tones-shades/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/tints-tones-shades/A tint adds white, a shade adds black, and a tone adds gray. Each changes value or saturation but keeps the hue. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/monochromatic/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/monochromatic/A monochromatic scheme uses one hue with its tints, tones and shades. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/complementary/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/complementary/Complements sit across from each other on the wheel: red and green, blue and orange, yellow and violet. Side by side they make each other look stronger. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/analogous/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/analogous/Analogous colors sit next to each other on the wheel, such as yellow, yellow-green and green. They look calm and unified. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/triadic/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/triadic/A triad uses three hues evenly spaced around the wheel (red, yellow, blue). A split-complementary uses one hue and the two on either side of its complement. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/temperature/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/temperature/Reds, oranges and yellows read warm; blues, greens and violets read cool. Temperature is also relative: a red can be warmer or cooler than another red. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/simultaneous-contrast/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/simultaneous-contrast/A color looks different depending on what surrounds it: the same gray looks lighter on black than on white and takes on a hint of the surrounding color's complement. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/subtractive/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/subtractive/Pigments absorb (subtract) some light and reflect the rest. Mixing pigments subtracts more, so mixtures get darker and duller. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/additive/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/additive/Colored lights add together. Red, green and blue light are the additive primaries: red and green light make yellow, and all three make white. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/three-primaries/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/three-primaries/Painters traditionally use red, yellow and blue; printers use cyan, magenta and yellow (plus black); screens and light use red, green and blue. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/neutrals/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/neutrals/Mixing a color with its complement lowers its saturation; in the right amounts complements make rich browns and grays. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/print-screen/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/print-screen/A screen mixes tiny red, green and blue lights; a printer lays tiny dots of cyan, magenta, yellow and black on white paper. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/balance-principle/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/balance-principle/Balance is how visual weight is spread: symmetrical (mirror halves), asymmetrical (unequal things that still feel even) or radial (around a center). Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/contrast-principle/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/contrast-principle/Contrast puts unlike things side by side: light and dark, big and small, smooth and rough, warm and cool. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/emphasis/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/emphasis/Emphasis makes one part stand out as the focal point, through contrast, isolation, placement, detail or lines that lead to it. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/movement/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/movement/Movement is the path the eye travels through a work, led by lines, edges, shapes and repeated colors. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/pattern/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/pattern/A pattern repeats a motif (a shape, line or color) in a regular way across a surface. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/rhythm/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/rhythm/Rhythm is a visual beat made by repeating elements with spacing: regular, alternating, progressive (gradually changing) or flowing. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/unity-variety/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/unity-variety/Unity makes the parts feel like they belong together; variety adds differences to keep it interesting. Good designs balance the two. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/proportion-scale/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/proportion-scale/Proportion is the size of parts compared with each other; scale is size compared with something known. Some art uses hierarchical scale: the most important figure largest. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/formal-analysis/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/formal-analysis/Describe what you see, analyze how the elements and principles work, interpret what it might mean, then judge with reasons. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/composition-structures/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/composition-structures/Many paintings are built on a simple structure: a stable triangle, an energetic diagonal, a winding S-curve or a circle. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/thirds-focus-paintings/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/thirds-focus-paintings/Find where the strongest contrast, the lines and the gazes lead; that is the focal point, and its place on the grid shapes the mood. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/value-pattern/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/value-pattern/Squint at a painting and it simplifies into a few big light and dark shapes. That value pattern often carries the composition. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/color-in-paintings/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/color-in-paintings/Name the scheme (complementary, analogous, triadic or monochromatic), the temperature and the saturation, and say what they do for the work. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/color-meaning/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/color-meaning/Color meanings come from culture and history, not nature: white is worn for weddings in some places and for mourning in others. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/readable-contrast/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/art/color-and-design/readable-contrast/Text needs enough value contrast with its background to read easily; web guidelines ask for a contrast ratio of at least 4.5 to 1 for normal text. Color and Design · Art & Drawing Ladder