Color Design Form

I have made the following observations and revilations in Color, Drawing, Form class.
Takeing a formal aprouch to how you display, phograph, or illustrait an idea will drasticly effect how the viewer see's the composition as a whole.
Drafting skills are extremly helpful in designing things in an acurate perspective as if it it were occupieing space. (illustraited 3D objects or diagrams of 3D objects with flat artwork projected on them)

Color is one of the most complicated yet descriptive tool in a designers study and practice. if one can utilize the effects of color one can create visualy stimulating work that has a powerful way of moveing eyes to a larger understanding of what the creaters messege is about .

These three Aspects of Design will be very usefull in what I choose to do, and how I observe the world.
My awareness of  form and the presense of color has stregthend in my observations and i will continue to use all that i have learned with a much broader understanding.

This year i could have produced more in sertain areas but i need to attack my studies in a less stressfull manor.

Josef Albers and his incredible color plates

Color, color, color,  on the left is a color wheel constructed from my color aid. I felt very acomplished after succsesfully arangeing these hues to make such a fantastic wheel of color.
My apologies for the green back ground, but because of it i can tell you that the green color is affecting the wheel in all of its colorful glory in look and appearance. This is due because of subtractive and additive optical mixing that occurs with color

We took a field trip to see Josef
Albers's original color plates at the library.
This was a lovely exsperience to behold!
I did noy reolize that our library had a rare collection of information such as these color plates.
With so many color plates to see it will be hard to talk about.
The image to the right------>
I believe this was a fancy study in how 3 colors can look like 4. There is a flap that if lifted, reveals that the half circle shapes are conected. This elegant study was one of my favorites to observe first hand.

This last study above  is a study of additive and subtractive transperncy.
Albers is adding and subtracting light for the viewer's eyes. The left plate is additive transparency,
the right plate is subtractive transparency. Keep in mind the terms are referring to the mixture of light which can be confusing if not explained.

color project ideas

Falling Gradiants / Falling leaves
For concept one i would like to photograph all the subtle colors of fall leaves as the colors range all over the place as they begin to fall from the trees. depending on the tree and amount of sunlight hitting the surface of the leaves changes the color mixtures of leaves. for example top of tree will be bright yellow middle section red and the bottom are green with a mixture of hues were they intersect.


Produce Abundance
For this idea I would be going into to various food markets, farmer’s market’s, or anywhere I could find produce. The range of color in the produce section is fantastically abundant and a range across the color wheel. Depending on the produce type the hues and colors will contain a variety of richness.   (Like a pile of pumpkins of different hues)

color in Textures and flat surfaces.
  I will photograph textures and flat surfaces of all kinds. for example i would have one photo of a blue texture next to a photo of a flat blue surface.  there are an infinitive amount of possibility to find textures of all kinds. the pairing of flat and textured surfaces would be a great combination of image pairs to convey contrast in feel but similarity in hue's and color.

3d letter form procces

Constructing an abstracted letter form.

In this post is a few shots of creating an abstracted form of an uppercase letter I. My focus on form was to bring more dynamic angles to the uppercase letter I. I personally feel the letter I is over looked do to its simple form.  What i did was play with stroke to make sections of squares smaller in scale to larger in scale. The project was constructed from foam core.

I feel i succeded in makeing the form of "I" more dynamic by adding such square angles. This idea was perfict for the shape of "I" and would not have worked as well with a letter form with curved strokes or counters.

I then spray painted the planes with a white surface. So far I've applied about 3 or 4 coats.        I feel my overall craft could have been more focused on do to a lot of seam issues along the edges. I fixed this by applying tape and a few more coats of paint.

After construction we began studting form in space with black and white digital photography.

the last of these three images is one of my outcomes. The cropping of the form in this picture creates a feeling of stability. its also a visual metaphor because you can also perceive a feeling of unbalanced do to the angle of the form.

later we will be constructing another accordion style book with photo pairs of our letter forms.

reading response-color

So to recapture my thoughts on what I read (page 1-11) in Interaction of Color i will write this post. basicly what i read reiterated my previous thoughts surrounding color. Color is reconizable to every single person, but not distict hues or shades. when someone says red all the listeners are familure with red, but each person will have a different shade or thought or memory of the color mentioned.

color is prevalent in our world EVERYWHERE. But not naturally as a single hue. given the natural light and direction of light colors will change either lighter or darker depending on the viewers perspective.   i might be staring at a huge completly red billboard head on with the sunlight shineing right on it and it would be a bright shade of red. However, if the sunlight was behind the billboard, the shade of red would be much darker given the shadow.

color is an amazing phenomenon in my perspective of this world and I'm absolutely stoked to start our color theory.