Light and Colour Theories, and their relation to light and colour standardizationLovibond, Joseph W. (Joseph Williams)
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Light and Colour Theories, and their relation to light and colour standardization
Lovibond, Joseph W. (Joseph Williams)
Color; Light
Such cases should be registered for further examination, taking note of
the miscalled colours. It would be an additional precaution to change
the position of the colours in the windows of the apparatus, in order
to prevent the association of colours with their positions as first
given in the instructions.
_Note._--The paints which most nearly correspond to the colour
standards in the Colour Educator are tabulated below, the third column
containing their measured colour proportions when they are washed
thickly on white paper (_Whatman’s_).
--------------+---------------+-----------------------------------------------
| | Colour Composition in Standard Units.
Spectrum | Artists’ +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------
Names | Names. | | | | | |
| | Red. |Orange.|Yellow.| Green.| Blue. |Violet.
--------------+---------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------
| | | | | | |
Dominants: | | | | | | |
Red | Crimson Lake | 18·0 | 0·4 | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----
Yellow | Lemon Yellow | ---- | ---- | 6·6 | ---- | ---- | ----
Blue | Cobalt | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 9·0 | ----
| | | | | | |
Subordinates:| | | | | | |
Orange | Chrome Orange | ---- | 7·2 | 1·6 | ---- | ---- | ----
Green | Emerald Green | ---- | ---- | 0·40| 5·4 | ---- | ----
Violet | Mauve | 3·3 | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 8·2
--------------|---------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------
In mixing two dominant colours (artists’ primaries) to develop
subordinates (artists’ secondaries), their relative colour depth must
be taken into account; for instance, Crimson Lake has a natural colour
depth nearly three times that of Lemon Yellow; therefore, in order to
develop a normal Orange nearly three times the quantity of Yellow must
be used, presuming that they were originally ground to an equal degree
of fineness.
It is desirable that a record of the children’s own painting should be
preserved, with a view to discriminating between errors arising from
Colour Blindness and Colour Ignorance, the former perpetuating itself,
and the latter naturally remedying itself. For this purpose painting
books containing sets of diagrams corresponding to the figures in the
foregoing pamphlet can be supplied.
Appendix II
THE POSSIBILITIES OF A STANDARD LIGHT AND COLOUR UNIT.[5]
[5] Reprinted from the _Journal of the Society of Dyers and
Colourists_, March, 1913. No. 3, vol. xxix.
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