A while back, I introduced the idea that any single color, rather than being a note, is actually a chord. Any chord is made up of more than one note. Color has three notes. When we can begin
to see these three notes, we can recognize which notes change within that chord and that informs us exactly what we need to do to create that color.
These notes are hue, value and saturation. (Saturation is also called intensity, and chroma.) The chord identification is the color we see. Below are two colors
(two chords). What notes changed from chord A to chord B?
The answer is that the value and hue notes remained the same, but the intensity note changed.
Artists often get stumped by color changes within an image, such as the one between A and B in this apple image. If we recognize that A is the same value as B, but that both hue and intensity
change, we have something concrete to work with when mixing those colors.
It also becomes easier to see that the area in C is the same hue as B, but both value and intensity change a bit from what we see in B.
For the color chords immediately under the letters A & B in the photo below, identify the hue, the value, and the saturation. Which notes have changed?
Hint: For these two color chords, two notes have changed and one remains the same.
I have hidden the answer for you HERE. Now that you know this, can you mix these colors? Give it a try.
Have yourself a harmonious chorded weekend!
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