5. What is a Colourist?
“Colour posses me. I don’t have to pursue it.
It will possess me always, I know it. That is
the meaning of this happy hour: colour and I
are one. I am a painter.”
-from Paul Klee’s diary, April 16, 1914
7. Continue…
Paul Klee who painted the above was
a colourist, an Artist who uses
colour with great skill. A colourist
creates shape and form more by the
positioning of colours than by the use
of line.
8. Properties of Colour
Your attribute are the texture of
your hair or the shape of your
eyes. So too does colour have
attributes or properties.
9. Hue: 1st property
Hue is one of those properties. It is
the visual quality of objects caused by
the amount of light reflected by them.
Hues are referred to by there
common names, such as red, orange,
yellow, green, blue and violet.
10. Value: 2nd property
The value of a colour is the lightness or
darkness of it. Artist may mix a hue with
white to create a tint, a lighter colour value.
Or they may mix a hue with black to create a
shade, a darker colour value
