Hmmm, our bright world?

Look how saturated my homeland is. And yes its actually like this. Barbados for the win Hahaha

Oh wait, look at my home town hackney...what lovely varieties of grey...broken colors

Ohh what a lovely saturated picture of china...obviously somewhere away from the grey pollution of the capital

Ohh back in Hatfield, Grey Hatfield, honestly, i really hate this country sometimes

Hair colours

Now for this blog entry i really wanted a sunny day so i could take a picture of my hair in the sun...but i forgot we live in Hatfield >_____>



The point i wanted to make was that in the sun your hair changes color, its enhanced, the hue is more powerful and pure and sometimes tinted.

The word im looking for is...more... saturated! Its like a gamma overload or something, don't know what i'm on about there lol

Im guessing this happens because light reflects of the hair into our eyes. so yeah, the sun does add extra white to the natural hair color as well.

Light and dark

Shades are colors that have black added to them, tints are colors that have white added to them. Look at this hummingbird. The way how the green on the body and wings merges into the white breast feathers. Lovely. that light green is a tint of the green above its eyes. Look at the red under the beak. It has some parts with black added = shades of red.

When you think about it, light really affects thee way we see colors. Even in our natural every day world, its surprising we don't get a brain overload with all that's going on. I took some examples of the art building at uni. See how the color of the bricks are darker in the shade. That's because it has black added to it. Look at the top of the camera, it has a highlight, this is more white because of the sky's light. 

In fact, the sun is quite important in how we see color...actually, i'll talk about this later lol

Tints and shades in fashion

Usually in make up you would be using pure hues to make someone look beautiful. Unless its for some funky fashion shoot. Actually the red lip look is quite popular but that's about it really.

For like eye shadows and glitters you'd usually have tints and shades of broken colors and pure hues. They all tend to be not too far from natural skin tones. Again when it comes to make up, color theory is very important; using colors carefully to contrast and make others look dominant.

Again with blusher, the key is subtlety, that means tints and shades of pinks and browns and reds..harmonious colors actually. 

you don't wanna look like this douche below do you?  

Are white and black colours?

Who said white and black inst a color? Science? I don't give a flying rat what anyone says, White and black are colors.
You wouldn't go into a paint shop asking for light would you. Look here to the left. What do you see? White to black value chart. these are colors, grey too. 'what colour would you paint your bathroom? White? Yes.

Yes it makes sense to say that black is an absence of color and light  but pigmented it is a color.
Its the same with white, yes the sun has white light which is why we get rainbows when it rains because the colors split blah blah blah whatever.

Anyways, to do with light when you mix all colors you get white, but with pigments, you mix all colors and you  get what? i dunno, grey? black? certainly not white though O__o

I refuse to open my mind to this controversial subject. In this backwards world I'm not a science person therefore 'logic' is nonsense to me and nonsense is logic. I'm getting too carried away here LOL

Harmony =D

This is a photo i took of my money which i have to live on for the rest of the month LOL but i chucked in my red guitar pick to make a point. All these colors sit well together and even the 5 pence because they reflect the brown a bit; which makes it a tint really...i'm not sure actually, maybe add a little green just to neutralize the grey abit..but you get the point  

On the inside of my bag has complementary and harmonious colors. the purple and yellow AND THEN the reddish color, the purple, the blue. Nice.

Actually I have noticed that a lot of floral prints on clothes have harmonious and complementary colors on them. Kimonos are a good example of this. There are some really contrasting designs usually but i saw these toned down ones

Eye colours

Honestly speaking, I've seen some AMAZING naturally occurring colors in eyes of living beings. Obviously some people wear contacts but usually you can always tell if someones eyes are real. Like this guy below you can see the green edge and brown center - gorgeous mixture - known as hazel eyes.

As brown is derived from red a green, these eyes have a large scope of broken colors.

 I could sit here at my laptop and take a sample of almost every colour in the iris here but thats long...

Anyways, Animals have beautiful eye colors too. There are eye colours which animals have which humans cant. For example, this Red eyed tree frog. Never seen someone who's not wearing contacts have this XD

You do see people with eyes like lions but its so rare. My friend has this eye color but because we have pupils, the color of the iris gets darker as it gets to the pupil. In terms of color theory adding black to a pure hue color makes it a shade.

But here my favorite dog, Husky!!! Eyes to dye for. Brown and blue, i think these colors are actually complementary - they are derived from orange and blue but they are tints

Its autumn!

Today was our first lesson in colour theory. 2 words: Colour wheels. Gosh that took me back a few years but it was fun! Now that I refreshed and revived my outlook on colours the world just seems so much more...colourful...  not exactly like the place underneath on the left because its obviously not our grey hatfield  *sighs* but I'm sure you get my point.

So yes, its that time of the year when the leaves turn into beautiful hues of reds, browns, oranges, golds and other warm colours. 

Even though the weather is becoming more chilly, its weird how a visually warm environment changes absolutely nothing... 

..bit like a slap in the face really =(  

But back to the point, our teacher was saying about the clothes we wear and to be honest, I actually do colour coordinate my outfits according to season and today I'm wearing this:

Harmonious colours on the colour wheel: orange and red orange (I like to call that colour blood orange) The photo is a bit dark but you can still see the colours I guess. 

Tomorrow I will post a photo of a building in uni I saw today, it has some interesting and contrasting colours. 

But before I forget, being on the topic of autumn, there was a Korean film I saw a few days ago actually, and the colour grading on the entire film was amazing.

'A Bittersweet Life' by director Jee-woon kim and staring Lee Byung-Hun.

But yeah, the whole film was tinted towards a warm orange 

You cant really see too well in the screenshot below, but if you watch the film you can see that most of time, the colour black isn't black at all, but more of a warm brown. Also at certain points the film is almost in sepia which really seems to draw you into the film more.

Its worth watching as there's a lot we can learn from foreign films really.