Michelle Campbell
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
■ How to mix secondary and tertiary colours from the primaries
■ Beginner’s guide to watercolour materials
Watercolour
To begin to work with colours, it’s helpful to understand how they work. Sir Isaac Newton demonstrated that light is the source of colour when he held a glass prism up to a beam of sunlight, where it produced rainbow hues. He also established the colours as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Colour can come to us in three ways:
Direct colour comes from an incandescent source. It generates and emits light, such as the sun or a torch.
Transmitted colour is light that passes through a translucent material, which absorbs certain wavelengths, but allows others to pass through.
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