Marc Surrency
December 18th, 2008, 07:48 PM
Hi,
My name is Marc Surrency. I have professional backgrounds in art, forensic chemistry, commercial printing, photography and secondary education. I'm currently juggle a couple of hats as a forensic document chemist and as a portrait artist and teaching art on the side. Since I have a techical background, I often get asked questions about art materials and color/light theory. So a few years ago I started addressing these questions on my website. One of the topics I covered for my students was color theory.
I know that there are several color tutorials out there and mine is by no means spectacular, but I've tried to address some of the questions that I've been asked that aren't always covered in other tutorials. According to my students, sometimes the tutorials are to complex and yet other times they don't answer what would seem to be easy questions - such as where is brown on the color wheel? Another area of confusion for one of my students was color temperature. One of my students (an engineer) was confused about color temperatures because he was looking at it from the science side where blue is a hot color and red is a cold color versus the physchological side where blue is cool and red is warm. Luckily, as a scientist as well as an artist, it struck me why he was having trouble and I was able to clear up his confusion.
A few years ago I put together a tutorial for my students where I tried to make it easy enough to understand for beginners, but complete enough to help more advanced students. Color and light can sometimes be complex subjects to understand and explain. Hopefully this may be of some help.
http://www.surrencystudios.com/Color%20Theory.htm
Feedback is appreciated!
Thanks - Marc
My name is Marc Surrency. I have professional backgrounds in art, forensic chemistry, commercial printing, photography and secondary education. I'm currently juggle a couple of hats as a forensic document chemist and as a portrait artist and teaching art on the side. Since I have a techical background, I often get asked questions about art materials and color/light theory. So a few years ago I started addressing these questions on my website. One of the topics I covered for my students was color theory.
I know that there are several color tutorials out there and mine is by no means spectacular, but I've tried to address some of the questions that I've been asked that aren't always covered in other tutorials. According to my students, sometimes the tutorials are to complex and yet other times they don't answer what would seem to be easy questions - such as where is brown on the color wheel? Another area of confusion for one of my students was color temperature. One of my students (an engineer) was confused about color temperatures because he was looking at it from the science side where blue is a hot color and red is a cold color versus the physchological side where blue is cool and red is warm. Luckily, as a scientist as well as an artist, it struck me why he was having trouble and I was able to clear up his confusion.
A few years ago I put together a tutorial for my students where I tried to make it easy enough to understand for beginners, but complete enough to help more advanced students. Color and light can sometimes be complex subjects to understand and explain. Hopefully this may be of some help.
http://www.surrencystudios.com/Color%20Theory.htm
Feedback is appreciated!
Thanks - Marc