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There are entire books written on color. There are lots of books out on color. So I'm just
going to make some very brief statements about color. First of all I don't get too much into
color theory. I like to mess around with color, the same way some people like to mess around
in boats. But you might want to get yourself a thing called a color wheel, which is something
that helps you think about colors. Shows you how colors can work. So that it, it's actually
kind of like a time saver. And these aren't too hard to find. And up here, just a few
terms that you might want to pay attention to you know, if this were our simplified color
wheel you'd see that red and green are opposite color. That purple and yellow are opposite.
That orange and blue are opposite. And when you start messing around with color you start
to realize how this works. You've got different ways to think about them. The hue is the first
and most obvious dimension which usually identifies the color by name. You know whether it's red
or blue. The intensity is the second dimension of color, relative to the intensity of it's
hue. The value locates the color's approximate position in relation to black and white. There
is also the idea of thinking in terms of color as being symbolic. Ok. So in western illumination
for example the color blue is considered a very spiritual color. Gold of course is considered
very spiritual. We think of white as being for purity. But different people have different
ideas about what is symbolic to them. And as an artist, as a calligrapher you certainly
have your choice about that. So one of the things that I want to say about color, first
of all I think I showed you before that I keep my used gouache in these handy little,
little containers and the lid pops off. They are really fun and you can get these at restaurant
supply store. But you don't want to use them if there's been food inside. So start clean
with these.