COMD1100 : STUDENT BLOG

Fall 2017 | COMD1100_LC08 | Prof. Spevack

Author: MARCEL (Page 1 of 3)

Color Harmony: Phase 4

December 18, 2017 / / 0 Comments

First of all, thank you Professor Spevack for your knowledge and patience with the class. I am grateful to have had you this semester, and to have learned so many new things about the artistic world around me. I have learned so many new fancy art words, new ways to look at figures and colors, and new ideas & concepts, which has changed my perception of how to think and use detail, how to assemble a project, and how to use new art tools.

For this project, we were taught how to use colors together—proportionally—in comparison to our last project, where we used colors to compare.

Phase 1 had us looking for progression of colors in nature or within our immediate surroundings. I used the manga books on my bookcase, and got the chance to re-admire the artwork of my older books. Phase 2 was were the extra fun part starts; we captured the colors of an image and created a lengthy title for a rectangle of colors (proportional color inventory). I really enjoyed this part of the project, I even said out loud, “I could do this all day!”

Phase 3 — though optional, it deserves to be done. I created a natural scenery using the same proportions of my image from phase 2. It made me really think on how to execute this piece using the same amount of color as the inventory created.

Through this project, I’ve learned new colors (which is always awesome) and a new way to see a change between colors and shade (black) or tint (white).

 

*Added note: All this work and creative designing has rekindled my love for art. Thank you!!

Color Harmony: Phase 3

December 18, 2017 / / 0 Comments

For this piece, I drew a natural scene of a wolf, walking along-side a river, by a mountain range, with a night sky, and the moon peaking behind the mountains.

From the proportional color inventory used in phase 2, I saw water—lots of water—and a night sky. I thought about natural scenaries that included being near a river or a lake, and created an image in my head of a mountainous region using the muted purple. I used the darkest color in my inventory as a silhouette color on the wolf figure, to demonstrate shade progression.

Time worked: half an hour

Color Harmony: Phase 2

December 18, 2017 / / 0 Comments

For my largely worded color box, I used volume 3 of Death Note from my bookcase.

Proportial Color Inventory

From this graphic novel, I captured every color I could find in even the closest details, but for my color box I used the 5 most definite colors. From this phase of the project, I went on a whirlwind of “color finding”and created three more pieces (below). I REALLY enjoyed this phase of the project because it gave me a reason to take all my books off the shelves and admire, and capture, the artwork and colors as if they were all brand new. From this step of the project, I learned, and brainstormed, the use of colors I’ve already seen in future artwork; I will DEFINITELY be using all these new colors in future projects!!

Hours worked: more than 1, less than 2

Color Harmony: Phase 1

December 18, 2017 / / 0 Comments

For my pieces, I used manga (japanese graphic novels) from my bookcase to showcase the color progressions. I’ve always loved the colors in cover art of any manga, but now that I’m seeing them in a different light, I appreciate them even more now!

Shade Progression (Black to Orange & Pink)

Using volume 6 of Shaman King, I’m demonstrating the shade progression of black to color. You can really notice the progression around the middle of the character, where the black is blending into the pink and just behind the orange foliage.

Two-Color Progression (Burgundy to Brown)

Volume 8 of Death Note; the dominant burgundy color progresses to the sub-dominant values of brown, which exhibits a 2-color progression.

Tint Progression (Lake Green to White)

And volume 4 of Death Note displays a tint progression with the blue-green lake color progressing to white.

20 minute work

Color Interaction Pairings: Phase 4

December 14, 2017 / / 0 Comments

This project was a great experience! The idea of comparing colors on top of each other, as found out through learning about Josef Albers’ studies. Albers’ studies were then converted into an iPad app, and from the presentation I watched in Phase 1, the app proves to educate future artists about the interaction of colors. Through Phase 2, we learned how to turn one color into two through the use of an interaction between different colors.

Phase 3 was fun to work on, especially when bouncing ideas off of a partner. Through an interview with my partner, I learned how to emulate an idea through the use of color and personifying the color by comparing it to a personality.

 

Color Interaction Pairings: Phase 3

December 13, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Shawn and Marcel

 

From Shawn’s calm, low voice, and mellow, sleepy personality, I perceived his color to be a blue chromatic gray. Shawn’s came up with an orange chromatic gray as a joke of my hatred of orange.

We shared the brick red color from capturing the color of his notebook, and turning it into a chromatic gray value.

Time worked: 1.5 Hours

Color Interaction Pairings: Phase 1

December 11, 2017 / / 0 Comments

Okay, so I watched the video of Anoka Faruqee’s presentation. Faruqee said Albers wanted his students to see colors in context, as in, compared to one another, because that’s how we see things; there’s no natural range of colors mapped out on a grid—we see them compared to each other in layers or side by side. THIS IS AWESOME!! It’s a great way to really SHOW differences in shades of colors, especially since a shade of any hue would look completely different in someone else’s eyes. I appreciate Albers for teaching in this manner. I get to see even MORE colors. I’m pretty sure I said ‘whoa’ more than 5 times throughout the video, when Faruqee presented the studies of Albers’ students’ works and revealed that the shapes that were meant to look different were actually the same. The conversion of Albers’ guidebook into an app is ingenious.

Saturation Studies: Phase 4

December 11, 2017 / / 0 Comments

This was an excellent learning experience. I had so much fun with the coloring with paints, mixing to get the correct values of hues, and I even subconsciously separated my laundry in order of the color wheel. I really loved each part of this project, I’m literally seeing different shades everywhere.

In Phase 1, I got mad I ran out of paint because I was so into the project, that I didn’t wanna stop.

Phase 2 was tricky to my eyes because between the chromatic grays and the muted colors I couldn’t remember which was which, and the lighting in my room made it look pretty identical, but then I saw the lighter values in the muted pieces compared to the chromatic grays.

Thank you, again—to my partner—Ebony, for working with me on Phase 3. This style finally has a name I can place; I’ve seen the swiss style before in movies and noticed it in polaroid label packages. I LOVED THIS PHASE!!! I’m going to print this and hang it on my wall.

 

I’ve learned no matter how old I get glue and paint always manages to get all over my hands; I’ll be more careful in the future. This project has opened my eyes to new colors, new vocabulary, and new styles. I want to do a LOT more of this type of project.

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