BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION ONE
The Elements of Colour (David Briggs). Invited webinar for the Design Institute of Australia, May 18, 2023.
Color Practice (Matias Dahl)
Interactive lightness and chroma sorting exercise available online and as iPad app
Interactive colour demos (Stephen Westland and Marjan Vazirian)
Interactive demonstrations of hue, lightness and chroma written in html, javascript and css.
The digital Munsell (Gernot Hoffman)
Very handy pdf of the colours of the Munsell Book of Color glossy edition,with CIE L*a*b* and sRGB conversions.
Virtual Munsell Color Wheel (Andrew Werth)
Munsell color chart (Android app)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.kozo.munsellcolorchart
Free Android app displaying 40 Munsell hue pages and interactive 3D model of Munsell space.
The dimensions of colour: The dimensions introduced (David Briggs)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/013.php (lightness)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/016.php (brightness and colourfulness)
Colour mixing tools (Zsolt Kovacs-Vajna)
Suite of free programs comprising: Color2Drop (a program to convert RGB, Lab or Munsell HVC color coordinates into paint mixing recipes), Drop2Color (a program to visualize the color of mixed paint recipes) and RS2Color (a program to visualize the color of reflectance spectra).
Or for even more information related to Lesson One see the links here under Basic Colour Attributes.
Introducing the Elements of Colour (David Briggs). A presentation for the AIC/ISCC Colour Literacy Project's 2nd Colour Literacy Forum, Teaching Colour Online, Friday September 30, 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOnI5vsstjE (for practical exercise)
BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION TWO
Colours of Objects and Colours of Light (David Briggs). Keynote address, Colour Society of Australia National Conference, Colour Sense and Sensibility, Perth, October 12-15, 2023
Color Inspector 3D
http://home.htw-berlin.de/~barthel/ImageJ/ColorInspector/help.htm
https://imagej.net/Color_Inspector_3D (Color Inspector 3D plugin for ImageJ)
https://imagej.net/ImageJ (ImageJ)
Color Inspector 3D is available both as a standalone program and as a plugin for the program ImageJ (Windows/Mac/Linux), and provides interactive visualizaton of image data in various color spaces. It also works as a colour picker in these spaces: e.g with "Lab" selected as the "Color Space", it displays L* etc. at each point in any image.
Artist's Helper (Robert Burrage)
Frank J. Reilly and the Controlled Palette (Tristan Elwell)
BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION THREE
For many further links on specific aspects of the eye and colour vision see Colour Online Section Three: Anatomy and Physiology of Colour Vision..
Suren Manvelyan - photos of human and animal eyes
Foundations of vision (Brian Wandell)
http://foundationsofvision.stanford.edu/
Complete textbook, free to read online
Color vision (De Valois and Webster)
Seeing color through different eyes - Individual differences in human color perception (Michael Webster)
Eyeball anatomy (AnatomyZone)
Hue and its components (David Briggs)
20-minute video on hue perception.
Color Blindness – learn all about it (Colblindor)
Includes various articles plus online CVD tests and tools.
The dimensions of colour, Section 4 - Additive mixing (David Briggs)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/041.php (additive primaries)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/042.php (additive mixtures)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/043.php (additive complementaries)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/044.php (additive-averaging and pointillist mixing)
The dimensions of colour - Section 5 Subtractive mixing (David Briggs)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/051.php (subtractive mixing)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/052.php (ideal subtractive primaries)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/053.php (subtractive complementaries)
BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION FOUR
The dimensions of colour - Section 6 Mixing of paints (David Briggs)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/061.php (mixing paints)
The color of art - Pigments (David Myers)
MITRA forum (University of Delaware)
Materials information and technical resources for artists
Painting Best Practices (George O'Hanlon)
https://paintingbestpractices.com/paint-pigments-absorbed-by-skin-contact/
https://paintingbestpractices.com/fat-over-lean-confusing-concepts/
Kelly, K.L. & Judd, D.B. (1976) Color : universal language and dictionary of names
https://archive.org/details/coloruniversalla00kellrich (read online or save pdf)
BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION FIVE
The dimensions of colour: Part 2, Basics of light and shade
The dimensions of colour: The dimensions introduced
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/017.php (saturation)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/018.php (blackness and brilliance)
Briggs, D.J.C., 2021. More Than Three Dimensions: Communicating the Attributes of Colour Perception in Colour Education.
Published paper (pp. 1073-1078): https://www.aic-color.org/resources/Documents/Proceedings_AIC2021_r10.pdf
Video recording of presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKp1Z_N_Sk
Text of presentation: http://www.huevaluechroma.com/1111.php
Briggs, D.J.C., 2023. The Elements of Colour
Invited webinar for the Design Institute of Australia, May 18, 2023.
BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION SIX
The dimensions of colour: Principles of colour for painters (David Briggs)
The Chroma Curve - painting light and shadow with oils (Paul Foxton)
Paul Foxton's many videos ably demonstrate another way in which the Munsell system can be applied to painting, involving directly matching the appearance of the subject in paint by holding up Munsell chips, after carefully setting up the light on the subject, palette and easel. (Some adjustment is often needed where the colours required by the comparison can't be reached in paint, as Paul mentions at one point).
Calculating colour for imaginative realist painting (Ron Francis)
Ron is a fascinating painter from Tasmania who paints haunting scenes from his imagination by calculating colour relationships that will result in vivid effects of light and atmosphere. In this video from the Colour Society of Australia national conference in March 2021 Ron explains the various approaches to these calculations that he'd tried over his career.
BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION SEVEN
Colour constancy illusions and painting (David Briggs, 2018)
87 optical illusions & visual phenomena (Michael Bach).
Akiyoshi's illusion pages (Akiyoshi Kitaoka)
BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION EIGHT
The dimensions of colour (David Briggs)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/062.php (Primary Colours)
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/071.php (From Aristotle to Newton )
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/072.php (The RYB Hue Circle or "Artists' Colour Wheel" )
These are my main pages on The Dimensions of Colour dealing with historical topics.
Leonardo: The Works (documentary, 2019)
Leonardo da Vinci on colour, light and vision (David Briggs)
https://coloursociety.org.au/resources/Documents/Members%20area/Leonardo%20da%20Vinci.pdf
Summary and diagrams from a talk on Leonardo that I gave to mark the 500th anniversary of his death.
Briggs, D.J.C. (2023). Controlling colour: historical background.
CSA ICD 2023 presentation covering the Munsell system, its relationship to the six CIE-defined attributes of colour, the long series of steps leading up to it historically, and its reception in art and design education up to the mid-20th century.
Mollon, J. D. (2003) The origins of modern color science.
http://vision.psychol.cam.ac.uk/jdmollon/papers/MollonColorScience.pdf
Excellent chapter on the history of colour science from Newton onwards.
Where is color education now? Color and technology (David Briggs)
The first part of this talk from the ISCC Munsell 2018 Centennial Symposium in Boston includes an explanation of the assumptions behind the traditional colour theory framework of red, yellow and blue primary colours and their "warm and cool" variations.
Historical texts online
https://sites.google.com/site/djcbriggs/10-history-of-colour-studies
My collections of links to scans of original historical studies of colour and texts on colour education.
MISCELLANEOUS LINKS
Bardwell, Thomas, The practice of painting and perspective made easy (1756)
Highly influential account of the technique of painting in layers.