Colour used in leathercraft design

1. Element of Arts:
Colour

2. • Newton’s discovery helped artists better understand
colour as being the visual quality of objects caused by the
amount of light reflected or absorbed by them.
• The property possessed by an object of producing
different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it
reflects or emits light.

3. Colour
Primarycolours:RED,YELLOW,BLUE
Secondarycolours:ORANGE,PURPLE,GREEN
Tertiarycolours:B-G,Y-G,Y-O,R-O,R-P,B-P

4. Leather design showing the primary colours

5. Secondary colours:

6. Variety of colours

7. Colour
• Properties of colour Hue, another word for colour, is
one of those properties. It is the visual quality of object
caused by the amount of light reflected by them.
• The value of a colour is the lightness or darkness of it.
Artists 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.

8. Intensity
• The third property of colour, is the brightness or dullness of a hue.
You can make a low-intensity hue by mixing colour directly across
the colour wheel.
• Intensity scale

9. Monochromatic
• This derives its name from the prefix mono, which means ‘one’ and
the base word chrome, which means colour. Monochromatic uses
different values of a single hue by showing tint and shades of the
same hue.
Mo

10. Types of colour scheme
A plan for selecting different colour is known as colour scheme.
• Examples of Colour Scheme include:
 Analogous
 Complementary
 Split complementary
 Triadic

11. Types of colour scheme
 Monochromatic
 Rectangle colour scheme
 Square colour scheme
Warm colour scheme
Cool colour scheme

12. Colour wheel
• A colour wheel is a spectrum bent into a circle. It is a useful tool for
organizing colours. The colour wheel at the top is showing the three
primary colours, three secondary colours and six tertiary
(intermediate) colours.

13. Colour wheel
• Twelve segments colour wheel showcasing primary, secondary and
tertiary colours.

14. Colourful leather products