Color

How's your right-brain//left-brain getting along?
http://www.humorsphere.com/fun/colortest.swf

Part 1: Organized Color

With the subtractive color wheel, make a non-objective composition,

Use a primary color and a secondary color.

AND use a tone of the primary color.

AND a tint and a shade of the secondary color.

AND use one warm, and one cool tertiary color.

Show transparancy.

Notes: See below.

Part 2: Practical Use

Three (3) images, using colored shapes, make representational or non-objective composition that...

1. shows depth

2. shows emotion

3. directs the viewer's eye around the page

Notes: See below.

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This project is due on November 20th. (2 weeks from date assigned.)

You may use "black and white" on two of the four images.

Use watercolor paper with gouache paint for both assignments. I will accept work done in acrylic. Trim and mount your composition on biology paper.

Be sure to construct all of your images with shape. Plan them out with pencil so you only have one layer of gouache or acrylic in any given area of the composition.

Illustrative shapes can be found in the negative space of an image, shadows that fall across a surface, contrasts between light and dark, etc... use a combination of these shapes, plus others, to describe your subject.

Here are some examples of representational images constructed from shape...

Hans Rudi Erdt, poster for Opel automobiles, 1911.

Ludwig Hohlwein, poster for men's ready made clothing, 1908.

E. McKnight Kauffer, poster for the Daily Herald, 1918.

E. McKnight Kauffer, London Underground poster, 1922.

Raul Martinez, poster honoring the Cuban people, c. 1970. (even larger)