Chapter 7
Color Dynamics
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding color’s weight
Exploring the phenomenon called chromeostereopsis
Discovering the fluting effect
Experiencing color’s wetness and dryness
Color dynamics involve the ways color effects how you experience compositions, perceive space, and read meaning into color. When you understand color dynamics, you gain more ways to use color in creative projects. For example, understanding that warm colors tend to advance (and cool colors tend to recede) gives you an advantage when your goal is creating depth. Understanding that certain colors have associations with dryness (and others have associations with wetness) helps when your goal is to evoke the qualities of a particular landscape.
In this chapter, you learn why many people are biologically inclined to see reds as advancing — and blues as receding. You also see how varying degrees of transparency creates different effects.
Feeling a Color's Weight
When we see different colors in context, their apparent lightness or heaviness becomes apparent:
- Dark and saturated colors appear to ...
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