Welcome to
The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Process Colours, or CMYK
Commercial printing uses a standard palette of four colours to create the full range of colour you see in books, magazines, posters and advertising today. Those four colours—cyan, magenta, yellow and black—are known as the process colours. You might think of them as the primary colours of commercial printing. This system of colours is also called CMYK (for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK).
|
For example: The colours of the tumbling chopsticks (above) have been mixed entirely from three colours: cyan, magenta, and yellow. |
Why does printing use different primary colours than painting? That's a good question if you've got the time for some gory technical details.
Back to the main lesson?Art & Text (C) Linda Carson 2002
Loosely translated, that means:
"Please don't copy this material or redistribute it
in some other form, for any reason.
This is my livelihood."