I continue to hear other artists talk about notes of color, but for some time now I've been thinking about color in a different way, a way to my thinking that makes its behavior more
meaningful. It occurred to me that any single color is a chord rather than a note.
WHAT THE HECK IS DIANNE TALKING ABOUT?
Musicians deal with single notes, but what gives their music depth is chords. A chord, as you know, is two or more notes. Color had three notes - hue,
value, and saturation (also called intensity and chroma). Then we could say that every single color we perceive is a chord.
In music, any three-note chord can shift a single note and a new chord is created. Color behaves the same way. A hue can shift
to a new location on the color wheel and change the chord. As shown below, the same value and saturation of a blue (1) can shift a bit towards green at the same value and same saturation, but it becomes a new color (2). Same is true if that color (2) stays the same hue and value, but shifts in saturation (3), or as in (4) stays the same hue and saturation but shifts to a darker value.
Below I've shown another kind of example:
The top chord of blue is middle value/high saturation/blue, the middle chord is high value/high saturation/blue, and the bottom one is high value/low saturation/blue. It is
impossible to have a color without all three characteristics (notes).
Here are some of the chords I found in these jonquils. I indicate the number on the traditional value scale where each of these register.
Name the three notes in the color chords I have circled in each of the photos below:
Enjoy a harmonious weekend!
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