Comparison of practical color application by visual artists in different fields : a sharing of their learning, teaching, and practical experience of color theory

• Main Author: Ng, Woon Lam
• Other Authors: School of Art, Design and Media
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Painting; Munsell; Color
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88141; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46087
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Based on the practical experience in painting for more than 30 years, the author has developed a new practical color theory based on the Munsell Color Space. The author published findings through comparing it with a more popular teaching framework based on the Itten Color Wheel at the 3rd International Conference on Creative Industry, Bali, Indonesia, on August 2015. As an extension of the pedagogical research in the teaching of color theory, the author has carried out a series of interviews with visual artists in different areas. Some of these visual artists currently involve in the art education as well. Therefore, the sharing of their experience in their learning, practice, and teaching of color theory will serve as good qualitative data for the development of a robust color theory training approach to benefit our current tertiary visual art students. The background of these visual artists covers art educators, architects, fine artists (painters), a comic artist/an illustrator, a visual communication artist, a product designer, and a film-maker while a few of them have profession in more than one areas stated above.