A Class-book of Color: Including Color Definitions, Color Scaling, and the Harmony of ColorsMilton Bradley, 1896 - 77 pages |
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agreeable combination analogous colors angles aniline basal color becomes more brilliant Blue Green Blue Shade bluer Bring the opposite Byzantine art color effect combination of colors complementary color cut the Pattern Darker Blue Darker Green Darker Yellow decoration diameters different colors different tones draw the Exercise Draw the square flowers fold and cut Fold the opposite fold the Square gold gold color Green Yellow harmony of colors intensity last exercise Lighter Orange Lighter Violet Lighter Yellow MILTON BRADLEY mounted mucilage normal blue normal colors NORMAL RED normal yellow objects opposite sides Orange Red Orange Shade orange yellow Owen Jones pigmentary colors Red and Blue Red Orange Red Shade Red Tint Red Violet Scale of Hues scale of tones Shade and Darker Shade and Lighter simultaneous contrast Tint and Darker Tint and Lighter tints and shades tium Violet Blue violet color Violet Shade Yellow Green Yellow Orange
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Page 49 - The harmony of contrast of hues, produced by the simultaneous view of tones of different height, each belonging to contiguous scales. 3. The harmony of contrast of colours, produced by the simultaneous view of colours belonging to scales very far asunder, assorted according to the law of contrast...
Page 17 - But it is not as favorable to complexions that are more red than rosy, nor to those that have a tint of orange mixed with brown, because the red they add to this tint will be of a brick-red hue. In the latter case a dark green will be less objectionable than a delicate green.
Page 49 - ANALOGY. — 1. The harmony of scale, produced by the simultaneous view of different tones of the same scale, more or less approximating. 2. The harmony of hues, produced by the simultaneous view of tones of the same, or nearly of the same depth, belonging to neighbouring scales.
Page 52 - ... which differently coloured objects appear to undergo in their physical composition and in the height of tone of their respective colours, when seen simultaneously. (79) The successive contrast of colours includes all the phenomena which are observed when the eyes, having looked at one or more coloured objects for a certain length of time, perceive, upon turning them away, images of these objects, having the colour complementary to that which belongs to each of them.
Page 49 - The harmony of contrast of colours, produced by the simultaneous view of colours belonging to scales very far asunder, assorted according to the law of contrast: the difference in height of juxtaposed tones may also augment the contrast of colours.
Page 49 - harmony of contrast of scale, produced by the simultaneous view of two tones of the same scale, very distant from each other.
Page 52 - ... simultaneous and successive contrast renders it easy to comprehend a phenomenon which we may call the mixed contrast; because it results from the fact of the eye, having seen for a time a certain colour, acquiring an aptitude to see for another period the complementary of that colour, and also a new colour, presented to it by an exterior object; the sensation then perceived is that which results from this new colour and the complementary of the first.
Page 60 - The harmony of hues, produced by the simultaneous view of tones of the same height, or nearly so, belonging to scales more or less approximating.
Page 19 - ... deadened by its continued action. The sensibility to red light will therefore be diminished ; and, consequently, when the eye is turned from the red wafer to the white paper, the...
Page 19 - One of the most curious affections of the eye is that, in virtue of which it sees what are called ocular spectra, or accidental colours. If we place a red wafer on a sheet of white paper, and, closing one eye, keep the other directed for some time to the centre of the wafer, then, if we turn the same eye to another part of the paper, we shall see a green wafer, the colour of which will continue to grow fainter and fainter, as we continue to look at it.