Week 11-Color Theory

1. General information

• Funeral Professionals learn color theory because:

  • It helps us to be successful in the cosmetic side of restorative art

  • It helps with lighting judgment when we are casketing a decedent for a viewing

  • it helps us when coordinating the wardrobes of deceased persons

  • It helps us with decorating and presentation of the service environment

  • Colors also represent different things as far as mood and mourning and this can vary depending on Culture.

1. General information

• Colors can create Moods

  • See page 207 in your text for a full list of colors and their corresponding meanings.

Light theory

• Spectrum

  • Colors are Arranged in ROY G BIV

• Absorption and reflection

  • We perceive color based on how much light is reflected or absorbed.

  • White light is dispersed into many colors

Light theory

• Hues- a color or shade.

• Value- the lightness or darkness of a hue.

• Tint-  a hue into which various quantities of white are mixed.

• Shade- a hue into which various quantities of black are mixed; the darkened hue.

• Intensity or Chroma-brightness or dullness of a color.

• Tone-  a hue mixed with either a small quantity of gray or the complement of the hue, resulting in dulling the hue.

• Achromatic Color-  a color not found in the visible spectrum; a neutral color such as white, black, gray, and silver and gold (for decorative purposes).

• Monochromatic Color- variations of one hue; tints, tones, and shades of one hue.

  
  

  
  

  
  

 Pigment theory/Prang system (color wheel)

 Pigment theory/Prang system (color wheel)

•  Changing the chroma of a hue with a tone

  • Creates a more neutral or less intense version of the color.

•  Harmony-Colors that look good together!

  • Monochromatic- Variations of one hue; tints, tones, and shades of one hue.

 Pigment theory/Prang system (color wheel)

 Analogous- two or more hues which have the same hue in common.

 Pigment theory/Prang system (color wheel)

• Complementary- directly opposite hues on the color wheel; any two pigmentary hues which, their mixture in equal quantities, produce gray.

• Contrast, non-complementary-two colors that are opposite of each other

 Pigment theory/Prang system (color wheel)

• Dimensions of color

  •  Hue- the property of a color by which it is distinguished from other colors.

    
    

  • Value- the lightness or darkness of a hue.

    
    

  • Chroma-  brightness or dullness of a color

 Pigment theory/Prang system (color wheel)

•  Classes of hues

  • Primary hue

  •  Secondary hue

  •  Intermediate hue

 Pigment theory/Prang system (color wheel)

• Warm hue and cool hue

  • Warm Colors--red, orange, and yellow families

  • Cool Colors- green, blue, and purple, and variations

• Changing the value of a hue

  •  Tint

  • Shade

  •  Tone

 Color in Illumination

  Observe the differences in Color Illumination in this Room throughout the day....

 Color in Illumination

•  Mixing colored illumination- the illumination of an identifiable hue.

  •  Additive method- a process of mixing colored lights on a surface on which the wave lengths of

    each are combined; adding two or more colored lights together to create another color of light.

  •  Subtractive method- method of diminishing the wave lengths of light by superimposing two or more color transparencies over the same light source; the light is gradually reduced by  absorption of colors in the light.

    
    

•  Effects of colored light and white light on colored objects

 Color in Illumination

•  Effects of colored light and white light on colored objects- Refer to Page 215 in your textbook for a full spectrum of color effects.