Restorative Art Color and Cosmetics
Chromatic color
A color having hue, a visible color in the spectrum
Complementary colors
A color scheme involves any two opposite hues of the color wheel
Monochromatic colors
A color scheme involving one hue. Tints tones and shades of one hue
Analogous color
A color scheme involving two or more hues which lie adjacent to each other on the color wheel and contain the same hue in each
Double complements
A color scheme of four hues, two adjacent hues on the color wheel and their compliments
Split complimentary
A color scheme of three hues, the two hues on either side of the direct complement
Triad color
A color scheme that involves three hues, as near as possible and should be at least three hues from each other on the color wheel
Saturation
A fully saturated color is one which the hue is pure and vivid and is not changed in its brightness aspect or diluted with its complement
Dome lighting
A large luminous light fixture usually with fluorescent bulbs submerged in the ceiling to provide direct light
Black
A mixture of all pigmentary colors
Additive method
A process of mixing colored lights on a surface on which the wave length of each are combined: adding two or more colored lights together to create another color of light
After image
A visual impression remaining after the stimulus has been removed
Cool hues
Absorb heat rays of sunlight and make them seem cool or chilly
Tertiary colors
All grayed hues( tones) are called
Small room
Appear large when decorated with high value
Small rooms
Appear smaller with lower value hue or cool hues
Adjacent color
Appearance of color may also be affected by the influence of an
North rooms
Are considered shadowed rooms. Therefore warm hues may be used to your advantage. Tints of yellows, orange, red and warm brown will bring more light
Low value (cool) colors
Are good for floors. Floors should be the darkest color of the room
Brown and slate
Are important to restorative art because it is the closes to color of the skin than any other color
Cones
Are responsible for the perception of color
White light
Black objects absorb all colors (absent all spectrum colors) this is only when white light (sunlight) is involved
Dispersion
Breaking up the sunlight into seven different colors know as
Warm hues
Closest to infrared( heat) waves
Achromatic color
Color not found in the visible spectrum, neutral color, white, gray, silver
Wave-length
Color of an object is identified by the _ of light it reflects
Cove lighting
Cove is concave, box light fixture extending around the walls of the room several feet from the ceiling
Low value hues
Decrease the size a room
Tertiary hue
Dulled grayed hues
Unsaturated red
Example pink is called
Fringe
Focus on a hue, steadily around the edge of the hue a fringe will appear of the hues complement
Cool colors
Green, blue, indigo, violet
Semi-indirect
Has a translucent bowl which transmits direct rays as well as I direct. The indirect rays greatly exceed the direct ones
Warm hues
Have the longer wave lengths. They reflect the sunlight and seem to be warm or hot
Cool hues
Have the shortest wave length.
Dull
If not compliment they _ each other
Enrich
If they are complements the _ each other
Sir Isaac Newton
In 1666__ discovered light.
Two hues
In appearance the hue bears the resemblances of each of the
Unsaturated
In color illumination results when there is an excess of one of the complements and very little of the other.
Tone
Is a grayed hue
Trough lighting
Is a long narrow receptacle with a reflecting surface
Alcove lighting
Is a recess in the wall for the casket. Behind the side and top of the wall the lights can be hidden from view
Cool white
Is high in green, blue and lacks red
Incandescent
Is high in yellow and everything is tinged by the yellow and our judgment is affected. Nevertheless it is a favorable color to most cosmetics colors
Black
Is not as dark as the complete absence of light
Hue
It refers to the name of the color whether it is warm or cool
White fliament
Light bulbs that provide less illumination than daylight
Bi-directional rooms
Light enter from two directions with both warm and cool light. The predominating light should influence the selection of the hues.
North room
Light entering a room from the north unchanging cool. No direct sunlight enters the windows and that which does is reflected light
West rooms
Light entering room is mainly warm. Cool light enters for only a short period of the day. Warm exposure is adaptable to cool hues and grays
Eastern rooms
Light entering the room from the east is mainly cool. Warm light enters for only a few hours. Cool illumination tends to give hues a harsh appearance. Cream, buff, ivory, gray-tan
Semi- diffused lighting
Light rays are bounced of an object
Diffused lighting
Light rays are scattered in all directions from the light source. Same as flat lighting or indirect lighting. The face can be equally illuminated with little contrast or shadows
Fluorescent lights
Low temperature lights. More illumination at less cost. Do not have the downward thrust of incandescent lights
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
Gray
Mixture of three primary hues reveals__
Rods (Receptors)
Most important part, are the rods which respond to various degrees of light
Point lighting
Movement of light rays in a straight line. Creates shadows
South rooms
Natural light entering a room from the south is warm and bright, and continues for many hours of the day. Hues which neutralize the heat of the sun are an advantage. Blue, gray, green etc
Complimentary hue
Ones that lie opposite each other in the color wheel
Secondary
Orange, green, purple(indigo)
Eye fatigue
Over stimulation by a single hue
5 classes of hue
Primary, secondary, standard, intermediate, tertiary
Absorption
Process of taking in: a color abject absorbs certain rays of light
Intermediate hues
Produced when a primary and its adjourning secondary are mixed equal strengths
Cool hues
Purple, blue, green or the ones they predominate such as intermediate yellow-green, blue-green and blue-purple
Apple
Red rays reflect and all other colors absorbed
Primary
Red, blue, yellow
Warm colors
Red, orange, yellow
Warm hues
Red, orange, yellow or the hues which they predominate such as yellow-orange, red-orange & red-purple
Soft white bulbs
Reduce glare and intensity. Generate high heat levels, get hot
Hue
Refers to the name of the chromatic color brightness depends upon the quality of light passing through a color media
White or high value
Room appears higher when the ceiling is___
Blue
Said to be the coolest hue
Orange
Said to be the warmest hue
Ceiling
Should be of high-value, white provides the most reflection. The ceiling should reflect at least 70% of the illumination
Juxtaposition
Simultaneous contrast. Any two colors seen together modify each other in the direction of their complement
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Sunlight is made up of _ pure colors and no color predominates
Total indirect
The bowl is opaque all light rays are thrown to the ceiling and reflected downward for complete diffused light
Conversion
The color of an object being converted or completely destroyed when one color of illumination strikes an object of a completely different color
Hue
The difference between two spectral colors is a difference of _
Hue
The first dimension of color
Dull or faded
The object they illuminate may seem _ or _. The contain no blue so they distort blue objects
Standard
The primary and secondary hues are called the six standard hues. Or the standard color wheel.
Absorption
The process of taking in, as in a colored object which absorbs certain rays of light and reflects other rays giving the object its recognizable color
Reflection
The return of light rays form surface, the bending or folding back a part upon itself
Value
The second dimension of color. The lightness or darkness of a hue
Midway
The secondary hues lies_ between the primary hue
Intensity
The third dimension of color. The degree of purity or dullness( grayness) of chromatic color.
Hue Value Intensity
Three dimensions to color
Pure warm hue
Tire the eyes sooner than cool hues
Interaction of hues
Two non-complimentary hues are juxtaposed/ superimposed and there is enough of the hue being seen, the over stimulation of one raises its compliments and mixes it with background color to form a new hue
Emphasis
Using the same color of light as the color of the object
Perception of color
Very individual with each person. People vary in their ability to perceive color such as past experiences of associations
Incandescent light
White filament light bulbs provide less illumination than daylight
White light
White objects reflect all colors( combination of all spectrum colors)
Brown slate tones
Within this range of tone one finds the --- appear
Intermediate hue
Yellow-orange, Yellow-green, blue-green, blue-purple, red-purple, red-orange
ROY G BIV
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
