color wheels

Cazenovia College freshman

Moses Harris Color Wheel, print + published

Moses Harris Color Wheel - watercolor

Schiffermueller . Color Wheel . 15th century

Phillippe Otto Runge Farbenkugel (ColorWheel) .  1777 - 1810

Christian Faur . Pointlist crayons

Color Mapping + light
vocabulary 

local color 

optical color + optical movement 

color perception

intensity of hue + saturation 

successive contrast

student work

additive mixing  

color + light - optical transparency

simultaneous mixing

monochromatic 

student work

polychromatic > primaries > secondaries > tertiaries 

complimentary colors schema > sit directly across each other on the color wheel  1P + 1S

analogous colors > sit adjacent to one and other on the color wheel

Bezold schema > 

The Bezold effect is an optical illusion, named after a German professor of meteorology, Wilhelm von Bezold (1837–1907), who discovered that a color may appear different depending on its relation to adjacent colors.

triadic color palettes > combine every fourth color on the basic color wheel. This gives you 4 different palette choices of 3 colors each.

Afterimage / Retina Burn
Refers to a color / image continuing to appear in one's vision after the exposure of the original image has finished. Go to > Web examples

NYC Barry McGee installation