The next two posts are photos from the instructors demo wall, and quotes from the handouts on color study.
When light shines on a leaf, or a daub of paint, or a lump of butter, it actually causes it to rearrange its electrons, in a process called 'transition.' Light actually does affect the object if it catches the electrons at their natural vibration. It shoots them to another energy level. It's less a matter of 'being' a color than of doing a color, as objects absorb certain wavelengths and reflect back others.
Kurt Nassau, described by Victoria Finlay, 1983
The colors that we see come from light that strikes the pigment scattered throughout the paint. Light scatters color back toward our eyes. The more complex the paint mixture, the duller it appears, as different colored particles interfere with light.
Bova, The Story of Light
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