![]() ![]() Remember that this will only work in a transparent medium. Now it’s up to you to play with all the above, combining your pigments to reach your desired effects. The eye will see the green through the yellow, giving a yellowy green colour with some depth, but the grey layer and the white paper will disappear entirely, limiting that depth and annihilating the white paper-given glow. The light goes through the yellow layer to the green opaque layer but cannot go any further. The eye sees all the colours at once, with a lot of depth created by the layering.Ĭase D – One opaque wash of green between two layers of transparent colours The light travels through all the layers, bounces off the white paper and comes back through all the layers. The eye sees the red colour, with a flatter finish because of the lack of depth.Ĭase C – Three layers of transparent paint over white paper The light bounces off the paint without allowing it to travel through to the white paper. The eye sees the blue colour, with a bright finish thanks to the brightness of the white paper underneath.Ĭase B – A single wash of opaque red covers the paper The light goes through the paint, bounces off the paper and comes back through the layer of paint. Here are some examples of what this means in practice.Ĭase A – A single wash of transparent blue over white paper Opaque, which reflect all the light and let nothing through.Semi-opaque, which reflect most of the light but let a small amount through.Semi-transparent, which let most of the light through but reflect a small part.Transparent, which let all the light through.When it comes to transparency, there are 4 categories of pigments: Other media such as watercolours, oils and acrylics are transparent, so the transparency/opacity of the paint will depend on another factor, which is the pigment used in each colour. Some media such as gouache, chalks and pastels will always be opaque, because the medium itself is opaque. The effect is that transparent paints have a more glowing, three-dimensional finish thanks to the resulting layering, while the opaque paints have a flatter, matt appearance. The answer is that transparent paints let the light through to the underlying paper while the opaque paints reflect the light, effectively blocking it and stopping it from reaching the paper. What exactly is the difference between transparent and opaque paints and how does it affect my paintings? I hope this helps with understanding the scale of iconicity from transparent to opaque with regard to signs.This question comes from Stella, who was at my West Dean course in September: It is difficult to see any clear underlying motivation for the gesture. On its surface the naive observer probably wouldn't guess at the meaning but once one is told the meaning, the motivation behind the original gesture can be understood more clearly (more transparently).Ī sign like "TO-PLAY" in my view would be opaque. In the execution of this sign the person face is being literally "pulled toward an object or a person". But for the general concepts this is how it works.Īnother sign that is translucent is for example ATTRACTED-TO/FASCINATED-WITH. So a sign may be "translucent" to one person and "transparent" to another. ![]() Signs will be more or less transparent, translucent or opaque to any particular person depending on how much they know about sign language and how it works in general. Of course iconicity from transparent -to- opaque is a scale. At that point you can see the underlying gesture the sign is representing but on the surface as the sign is performed today it has moved away from the iconic gesture. The motivational/gestural representation of "milking a cow" becomes more obvious after one learns the meaning of the sign. However, the sign MILK is more translucent that is, the motivated gesture of "milking a cow" is really lost in the execution of the sign today. ![]() It is based in the gesture of putting food in ones mouth and a naive observer would probably have no difficulty interpreting the meaning. ![]() For example "TO-EAT" is a very transparent sign. A translucent sign means that the sign has moved somewhat away from the obvious gesture that motivated the sign originally. ![]()
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