BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION ONE

Hue, lightness and chroma (David Briggs)

• Short video of animation illustrating hue-value-chroma colour space from start of Session One.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeq1248xdaM

The Orange Cube exercise -introduction to modes of colour appearance (David Briggs)

• Video at https://youtu.be/io_BmMWAhqk

• Illustrated text at https://www.academia.edu/123945904/The_Orange_Cube_Exercise_Introduction_to_modes_of_colour_appearance

The Elements of Colour (David Briggs). Invited webinar for the Design Institute of Australia, May 18, 2023.

• This hour-long video covers a lot of the content of Session One, plus some of Session Two and later sessions.

• Video  at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtrRpGb-7FU 

• Illustrated text at https://www.academia.edu/117180585/The_Elements_of_Colour

The Dimensions of Colour: The Dimensions Introduced (David Briggs)

Alternatively, these pages from my website and dating from around 2017  cover a lot of the same ground as the videos.

• http://www.huevaluechroma.com/013.php (lightness)

• http://www.huevaluechroma.com/014.php (hue)

• http://www.huevaluechroma.com/015.php (chroma)

• http://www.huevaluechroma.com/016.php (brightness and colourfulness)

Color Practice (Matias Dahl)

• https://www.color-practice.com/challenge.html

• Interactive lightness and chroma sorting exercise available online and as iPad app

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

The Causes of Colour (Kurt Nassau, 1980)

• https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~phy198/Causes%20of%20Color%20scientificamerican1080-124.pdf

• Scientific American article by author of The Physics and Chemistry of Color.

The dimensions of colour - Section 6 Mixing of paints (David Briggs)

• http://www.huevaluechroma.com/061.php (mixing paints)

Pigment based art materials & Color theory (Tamas Majoros)

• https://artistpigments.org/ 

• Huge and rapidly growing resource on pigments and brands of artists' paints and other media. 

The color of art - Pigments (David Myers)

• http://www.artiscreation.com/Color_index_names.html

MITRA forum (University of Delaware)

• https://www.artcons.udel.edu/mitra

• 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/

ASTM Lightfastness Testing for Oil Paints (Golden/Williamsburg paints)

• https://justpaint.org/astm-lightfastness-testing-for-oil-paints/

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 THREE

The digital Munsell (Gernot Hoffman)

• http://docs-hoffmann.de/munsell15052009.pdf

• 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)

• http://www.andrewwerth.com/aboutmunsell/

Munsell color chart (Android app)

• Free Android app displaying 40 Munsell hue pages and interactive 3D model of Munsell space.

• Not currently available on Google Play but still currently available on Aptoide at https://munsell-color-chart.en.aptoide.com/app 

ChromaMagic (Michele Clamp)

• Excellent paid Munsell app (US$20) with lots of features

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chromamagic.ChromaMagic 

Frank J. Reilly and the Controlled Palette (Colour Society of Australia webinar by Tristan Elwell)

• https://youtu.be/qUOwm_70jEU

BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION FOUR

Color vision (De Valois and Webster)

• http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Color_vision 

• A great, accessible introduction to cone opponency. See the next video by Webster for more detail.

Seeing color through different eyes - Individual differences in human color perception (Michael Webster)

• https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/webinar/2020/june/seeing_color_through_different_eyes_-_individual_d/ (advanced)

Suren Manvelyan - photos of human and animal eyes

• https://www.surenmanvelyan.com/eyes/

Foundations of vision (Brian Wandell)

• http://foundationsofvision.stanford.edu/ 

• Complete textbook, free to read online 

Eyeball anatomy (AnatomyZone)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lBtlGvS1Gc

From Introduction to Neuroscience (Bing Wen Brunton)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKcCscadzkg (Visual perception | Retina, photoreceptors, and rhodopsin)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN9lN9L8eKE (Color vision | Rod and cone cells in the retina)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjIcwZrPB78 (Visual Computations and Circuits | Receptive Fields | Sparse Coding Hypothesis)

For many further links on specific aspects of the eye and colour vision see Colour Online Section Three: Anatomy and Physiology of Colour Vision..

Color Blindness – learn all about it (Colblindor)

• https://www.color-blindness.com/

• Includes various articles plus online CVD tests and tools.

Color appearance and the end of Hering’s Opponent-Colors Theory (Bevil Conway et al., 2023.)

• A critique of the (still) standard view regarding unique hues

• https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(23)00147-X 

BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION FIVE

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)

Where is color education now? Color and technology (David Briggs)

• http://www.iscc-archive.org/Munsell2018_Presentations/Briggs-Presentation-WhereIsColourEducationNow.pdf

• 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.

BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION SIX

The dimensions of colour: Part 2, Basics of light and shade

• http://www.huevaluechroma.com/021.php

• http://www.huevaluechroma.com/022.php

• http://www.huevaluechroma.com/023.php

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. 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtrRpGb-7FU

BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION SEVEN

The dimensions of colour: Principles of colour for painters (David Briggs)

• http://www.huevaluechroma.com/101.php 

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). 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ziC_3icKw&t

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.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk_P_av0Meg 

BACKGROUND LINKS FOR SESSION EIGHT

Colour constancy illusions and painting (David Briggs, 2018)

• https://youtu.be/ob8uPzHVrY8

87 optical illusions & visual phenomena (Michael Bach).

• http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/

Akiyoshi's illusion pages (Akiyoshi Kitaoka)

• http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

BACKGROUND LINKS FOR ON HISTORY OF COLOUR CONCEPTS

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)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8FosQ5lbaE

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. 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RUr8MWOpeI

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.

Historical texts online

• https://sites.google.com/site/djcbriggs/10-history-of-colour-studies 

• https://sites.google.com/site/djcbriggs/11-colour-education 

• 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)

• https://archive.org/details/practiceofpainti00bard 

• Highly influential account of the technique of painting in layers.