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Warm colours
Those which suggest a sense of warmth, i.e. red, yellow, and orange and including brownish grays. All Warm Colors "lie in the red-yellow half of the Color Circle. Source: Ralph Mayer, "A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques" ...

 


Warm Colours
Colours that are said to come toward you. Examples-red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange etc.
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By contrast objects in the foreground are painted in sharply outlined, brilliant, and warm colours, and background objects are shown in muted, cooler colours.
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This small picture - a portrait of a youth, painted in brilliant, warm colours - is sometimes ascribed to Durer's pupils (Hans Suss von Kulmbach or Hans Baldung Grien).

Yet his humanistic approach is in full evidence in the library: the interior displays natural materials, warm colours, and undulating lines.

The soft and fluid outlines of his pictures, their deep and warm colours and the exquisite gradations of light and shade evoke the art of the Master of Trebon.

Art Glossary: Wash
Art Glossary: Glaze
Art Glossary: Warm Colours
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and the Sibyl (1823) with any of the earlier pictures reveals a far more iridescent treatment resembling the transparency of a watercolour. The shadows are as colourful as the lights, and he achieves contrasts by setting off cold and warm colours ...

It can be affected by size, contour, intensity of colour, warmth or coolness of a colour, contrast in value, texture and position.
Warm colours
Red, yellow and orange. They suggest warm places, things and feelings.

See also: Painting, Sketch, Roman, Watercolour, Classic

Fine arts Warm colorsWashington color school

 
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