Art Journal Challenge #3: Monochromatic

This week’s challenge is a colour challenge . Colour can be a great tool in conveying emotion.

The MONOCHROMATIC page consists of one hue in a variety of tints, shades and tones. Contrast is achieved by the use of value and intensity and could also be enhanced by the use of texture.

In art
• Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a colour.
• Intensity is the strength of a colour, it’s vividness or saturation.
• Hue is another word for colour
• A shade is achieved by adding black to a colour to make it darker
• A tint is the opposite of a shade, white is added to a colour to make it lighter.

We should also consider the SYMBOLISM and MOOD evoked by colour in our page design.

One psychological interpretation is that yellow stands for intuition, blue for thought, red for emotion and green for sensation. This corresponds to sun, sky, fire and earth.

In the western world colours have acquired the following associations

YELLOW: sunshine, illumination, happiness, wealth, safety, cowardice, sickness
RED: excitement, danger, daring, courage, passion, blood, patriotism
BLUE: devotion, honor, quality, nobility, infinity, solitude, depression
GREEN: hope, fertility, renewal, stability, jealousy, poison, decay

Feel free to share your favorite colour interpretations.