The Mantis Shrimp...

This Mantis Shrimp comic is fun and funny. Who knew that it was possible for so small a creature to have such magnificent eyes! such ability to see colors!

Marla Frazee's illustration process

Children's book illustrator Marla Frazee gives examples of her thumbnail and comp process on her website: click on "Studio" and then "Thumbnails" for examples.

Radio Lab: COLORS

RADIO LAB: Season 10 Episode 13, is dedicated the subject of COLOR!
http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/
Go to the link above to listen to the entire podcast - This RADIO LAB segment is highly entertaining and very informative!!
Colors
To what extent is color a physical thing in the physical world, and to what extent is it created in our minds? We start with Sir Isaac Newton, who was so eager to solve this very mystery, he stuck a knife in his eye to pinpoint the answer. Then, we meet a sea creature that sees a rainbow way beyond anything humans can experience, and we track down a woman who we're pretty sure can see thousands (maybe even millions) more colors than the rest of us. And we end with an age-old question, that, it turns out, never even occurred to most humans until very recently: why is the sky blue?
The Perfect Yellow

Jad and Robert wonder if maybe they could add to their color pallet. Jay Neitzwondered the same thing, sort of. Take a monkey that can't see red, for example. Couldn't you just give them the red cones they were missing? So he took the human gene for red cones, ...
Why Isn't the Sky Blue?

What is the color of honey, and "faces pale with fear"? If you're Homer--one of the most influential poets in human history--that color is green. And the sea is "wine-dark," just like oxen...though sheep are violet. Which all sounds...well, really off. Producer Tim Howard introduces us to linguist Guy Deutscher, ...

Triadic Color Scheme in Video

I noticed that Alicia Keys' video for "Girl on Fire" features triadic color schemes! Particularly secondary and tertiary triads. The use of color in this whole video is quite striking. Also, with a very different look, using a different triad of hues,a primary set with red, yellow, and blue, here is One Direction's "One Thing"

CMYK as a color scheme in Video

Here is a brand new Kpop video by the group Shinee called "Dream Girl". There are a lot of colors here, contrasted by scenes in black and white, but I notice a very distinct use of Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow in RGB mode - both in the clothes and interiors, and in the breaks and bursts of color that interrupt here and there.

Contrast of Proportion in Video

Okay, so I love the color scheme in this video, but it does not fit into one of Itten's color harmonies, so I am going to include it as an example of Contrast of Extension: Orange Caramel's "Lipstick"

After Image in animation

Check out this video animation by our own Gala Bent and notice the way she plays with after image and simultaneous contrast.