The Impact Of Advanced Color Theory


By Alta Alexander


There are many paints that are available in the markets. In order to achieve favorable paints that are required to perform painting to give certain results, mixing of different paints is carried out. Mixing of the concoctions is carefully done where certain criterion are adhered to ensure the correct outcome is realized. This process of mixing paints to form new colors is referred to as advanced color theory.

Studies on colors begun long times ago. Recent studies by theories are more like the previous ones only for a few adjustments that have been made. Scientists did their research and came up with two major branches of paints that all paints in the world fall in. These were primary and secondary categories. The primary category composed of only green, red and blue which were widely used to develop this theory.

Secondary and tertiary pigments are derived from the primary ones. To produce these paints, primary dyes are mixed in well-defined ratios to give the expected outcomes. These paints cannot be used to develop other paints since they are cannot mix easily. Cyan, yellow, magenta (CYMK) is the notation used to give the secondary dyes.

When developing this model of study, the scientists made some assumptions that aimed at improving credibility of their models. They argued out that all dyes present can mix perfectly forming one solution whose pigmentation is very uniform. They attributed any instances of paints refusing to form a uniform solution to effects brought about by impurities and differences in densities of paints. However, this is not true since from the present day experiments they have proved that not all dyes are miscible.

When painting is done, it is mostly to the outside of structures. However individual perception and inner world plays an important role. The advanced theory suggests that exterior light is more aligned to green while inner light has more of magenta. This variation is brought about by the intensity of light illuminated on the objects in place.

In order for painters to perform quality work in painting, they should have prior knowledge on different colors. This enables them to come up with paints of desired pigmentation that will produce good results. This plays an advantageous role where more paints can be made from the present ones without necessarily going for new ones.

The study brought about some specific traits that were used to differentiate all paints. One of this finding was on ability to give of light when laminated with some beams of light. Different paints have different luminance. White has the highest ability to reflect and can be added to other dull paints thus improving their reflective ability. Black reflects little light and effort to increase its ability is through introduction of lighter dyes.

Saturation of a paint can also be evaluated. This is done using special beams of light to determine how close a paint is to appearing grey. Those that are near grey are termed as being unsaturated. Those that do not give a look near grey are saturated and the levels vary.




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