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colourGlazing mixingIn painting glazing means the application of transparent layers of paint. A transparentblue applied over yellow mixes optically to green. Transparent red over yellow mixesoptically to orange. Transparent blue over red mixes optically to violet. If we apply threecolours on top of each other they cancel each other out and mix optically to producean unsaturated grey colour (ill. 33). The best results are achieved with glazing mixingwhen increasingly dark colours are applied over each other.[ 33]This technique cannot be used with poster colour, since poster paint is opaque. With allother types of paint the rule is that only colours based on (semi-)transparent pigmentsare suitable for this technique (see under pigments).pagen 23
colourPainting with colourSuggesting space on a flat surfaceThe ground on which we paint is flat. Nevertheless depth can be suggested in paintings.This suggestion can be created, for example, by a correct use of colour temperature,brightness and saturation.Analysis of a landscapeWe are looking out over a mountain landscape full of trees (ill. 34).Despite the fact that the photograph is a 'flat picture' the impression is that we can see infinitely far intothe distance. From foreground to background the landscape can be roughly divided into four stages:1. The trees in the foreground2. The trees on the far side of the water3. The mountain with trees behind it4. The mountains in the distance.Formal perspective and colour perspectiveSuggestion of space is created in the first placeby the fact that shapes which in reality are thesame size appear smaller and smaller 'the furtheraway from us they are'. The trees in the foregroundare almost as big as the photograph,while the trees on the other side of the lake aredepicted many times smaller. The trees on themountain are even smaller and on the mountainsbeyond no trees at all can be distinguished. Onlythe dark patches suggest that there are treesthere too. Yet we know that in reality the trees donot get smaller and smaller.pagen 24
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Page 3 and 4: colourIntroductionThe world around
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