Colour booklet

colour12If we next look at the colours in each of those fourstages, we also see great differences. Exactly whathappens to the colours becomes clear if we copy adark and a light colour for each stage approximatelyusing paint (ill. 35).[ 35]34In the foreground the greens are warm. They containa lot of yellow, and even orange. The furtheraway the trees are the bluer they become. Thecolour temperature falls as the distance from acolour increases. The colour becomes cooler.In the foreground the contrast in brightness is great. The further away we move, the smaller the distancebetween light and dark becomes. A dark colour becomes increasingly light as the distance from thecolour increases.Colour saturation follows a comparable pattern. The further away, the greyer the colours. The saturationof a colour decreases as the distance from the colour increases. Form perspective and colourperspective are inextricably bound together.Colour temperature andthe suggestion of spaceWarm colours stand out compared with cool colours (ill. 36). By reversing the use of colour in two illustrationswith the same shapes, the effect of the various colours on the suggestion of space is clearly shown.[ 36]pagen 25