We will begin studying color and texture.

Study DESIGN Vocabulary:

VALUE- Design Element; the degree of lightness or darkness in a color (hue) or the steps from white to black in an achromatic (no color) scale or palette.

MONOCHROME PALETTE: One hue from the color wheel, with adjacent blends, tints, shades, tones. For instance, a Monochrome of Red can include red-orange and red-violet, and all tints and shades of those hues.

CHROMATIC GRAYS- gray tones that have some neutral color. In paint, chromatic grays are made using complementary color pairs mixed plus white.

TONE: colors plus gray (mix of black and white) to create neutrals.

TEXTURE— Design Element: the feel of things, the surface tactile sensation; such as roughness, smoothness, gritty, silky etc. ACTUAL texture is a real material surface that has tactile sensation such as sandpaper, cotton ball,  vs VISUAL texture, which is a picture – photo or illustration OF a textured surface.

DESIGN PRINCIPLES:

GRADATION- slow incremental change between two elements (dark to light, color to color, big to small shape etc)

CONTRAST: large change in element – big/small, dark/light, long/short etc

TEXTURE — also look for as much contrast in TEXTURE in your photographs. Natural textures, human, manmade etc etc.

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