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The Natural System of Colours
Recreating Moses Harris’ color wheels from the eighteenth century.
Saturation was mimicked digitally by decreasing the opacity of each color painted (100% at the center and 10% at the edge)—allowing the texture of the paper to show through. Harris overlaid additional black concentric circles that increased from 3 to 12 for each saturation level to vary the tone of each color, resulting in “a complex interplay in which the primaries never appear in their original form in the circle.”— Spillman, 2004 The compound wheel is structured the same as the prismatic but with secondary colors orange, green, and purple in place of red, yellow, and blue respectively.
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