Neutral (NOO-trul) colors don't usually show up on the color wheel. Neutral colors include black, white, gray, and sometimes brown and beige. They are sometimes called “earth tones.”
Circus by Georges Seurat
In Circus, Georges Seurat uses many different neutral colors. You can see a few glimpses of red, blue, and yellow in this painting. But the overall effect is of natural brown and gray colors, like those you might see in rocks or in sand, dirt, and clay.
There are a few different ways to make neutral colors. You can blend black and white to make gray. You can create brown in two ways—by blending two complementary colors together, or by blending all three primary colors together.
Neutralize by choosing a high-intensity (bright) color and neutralizing (dulling it) by adding: Black, white, gray, and its complement
ASSIGNMENT: Make three rectangle boxes and place a complementary color on each end of each box. Then, blend each color until you get a neutral color in the middle.
The above project will be due Wednesday November 10, 2010
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