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The elements of colour mixing, observation, recording and compositional organization are fundamental to an artist's visual education. This course will introduce the students to the visual vocabulary of colour. Students will learn the key terms and basics of colour physics and the physiology of visual perception. They will become familiar with principles of colour relationships based on a colour sphere incorporating primary, secondary and tertiary colours. The course will explore characteristics such as hue, value and saturation, temperature, additive and subtractive colour mixing, colour interaction, simultaneous contrasts, transparency, the relationship between form and colour and spatial composition. Through materials and processes, the course will be explored as a means of visual thinking, a way to depict what we see and visualize what we think, and a method of communicating ideas. This course facilitates the examination of the interaction of colour through studio experience and the manipulation of colour to achieve various effects for problem solving and individual expression; course includes critiques and discussions.