The document provides an introduction to colors by discussing how they can be found in nature and how important they are. It explains that Isaac Newton discovered that white light is made up of the visible light spectrum through a prism experiment. The primary colors are yellow, magenta, and cyan, and secondary colors are made by combining two primary colors. A color wheel is used to illustrate the relationships between different hues.

1. THE COLOUR
THE COLOUR
María Mercado-Martín

2. We can find colours everywhere around us

3. In the animal world

4. On plants and
flowers

5. In beautiful
landscapes

6. Also our cities are full of colours

7. Just think for a few seconds how
our world would look like without
colours

8. Our life in black and white would
be very different

9. Dark gray peppers, white traffic lights, a gray
sea instead of a blue one...
We will lose a lot of
information and beauty

10. Now we know the importance and
usefulness of color. Let´s now
learn more about them

11. How do we see colours?

12. Colours are captured by the eye and
reach the brain via the optic nerve

13. In 1666 Isaac Newton discovered that when
sunlight passes through a glass prism, it is
decomposed in 7 colours. These are the 7
colours of the rainbow

14. Water raindrops work as a glass prism and
break up the sunlight into a rainbow

15. Rainbow colors are 7 and always appear
in the same order:
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
and violet

16. Newton´s experiment proved that
the colour is LIGHT

17. Now let´s see how colours are
arranged and classified

18. There are three primary colours:
●
Yellow
●
Magenta
●
Cyan
They are the colours that can be combined to
make all the range of colours.

19. Primary colours and their
mixtures

20. Secondary colours are the
mixture of two primary colours:
+ = Violet
+ = Green
=
+ Red

21. The colour wheel
Is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle,
It shows relationships between primary colors, secondary colors,
complementary colors, etc.

22. Colours can be divided into warm
and cool colours.
Cool Warm
●
Blue, ●
Red
●
green ●
Yellow
●
violet ●
orange

23. This has been a brief introduction
to colour. Now it´s time you go on
learning and having fun with it!