• read Black English Vernacular (From "Ain't" to "Yo Mama") by Monica Frazier Anderson (1994)


• read Color Theory by Jose M. Parramon (1989)
  
  
  
  • RGB -- primary colors, additive synthesis; CMYK -- secondary light colors, subtractive synthesis
  
  
  • Local color: color of the object itself; tonal color: color variations resulting from light and shadow; reflective color -- reflected by other objects, environment
  
  
  • Color brighter and contrast greater in foreground v. background (condition of atmosphere)
  
  
  • Adding white to a color turns it gray
  
  
  • Never make a color lighter or darker by using white or black; use other colors, complimentary colors to darken, create contrast (e.g. yellow and violet)
  
  
  • Shadows are blue, contain darker tones of the object's color, and complimentary colors (e.g. red apple: blue, dark red, green shadow
  
  
  • Melodic range = monochromatic; harmonic range = complimentary
  
  
  • Color contrast comes from juxtaposing complimentary colors (fauvists)
  
  
  • A color throws it's compliment onto neighboring colors (e.g. lemon makes gray background seem blue)