Thanks to everyone who has been giving me feedback on this blog!
If you would like to post your images on this blog, comment on the exercise that you wish to submit your designs and we will go from there!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Lesson #3B Color & Form & Meaning: Words Revisited
Now that you've been busy exploring and building your understanding of color. Lets take a look back at Lesson # . Use this this form to analyze your designs. Find someone else's designs and compare them to your own. Isn't it interesting how certain colors correlate with shape? Do the primary colors tend to have simpler shapes? Are your designs for the secondary colors combinations of simpler shapes? In my comparisons, you can see elements of the shapes created with primary colors in the designs for the secondary colors.
For each word (1-10), check the answer to each question and explain your reasoning behind it.
Similarities between colors.
_ much
_ somewhat
_ not at all
explanation:
Similarities between shapes.
_ much
_ somewhat
_ not at all
explanation:
Relationship between language and shape.
_ much
_ somewhat
_ not at all
explanation:
For each word (1-10), check the answer to each question and explain your reasoning behind it.
Similarities between colors.
_ much
_ somewhat
_ not at all
explanation:
Similarities between shapes.
_ much
_ somewhat
_ not at all
explanation:
Relationship between language and shape.
_ much
_ somewhat
_ not at all
explanation:
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Lesson #3A - Words
For lesson three, we will follow the same format as lesson two. This time, I will give you a new set of ten words to create your designs. It is your job to mix the color and create a simple shape that relates or describes that word.
1. musical
2. sour
3. cerebral
4. sleep
5. past
6. ascending
7. descending
8. full
9. bitter
10. presidential
good luck, and get to work! These recipes don't make themselves!
here are my designs:
1. musical
2. sour
3. cerebral
4. sleep
5. past
6. ascending
7. descending
8. full
9. bitter
10. presidential
1. musical
2. sour
3. cerebral
4. sleep
5. past
6. ascending
7. descending
8. full
9. bitter
10. presidential
good luck, and get to work! These recipes don't make themselves!
here are my designs:
1. musical
2. sour
3. cerebral
4. sleep
5. past
6. ascending
7. descending
8. full
9. bitter
10. presidential
Monday, January 14, 2008
Lesson #2 - Mix & Match
Mix & Match - Color & Shape.
In this lesson you will be given 10 color types. It is your job to mix the color and create a simple shape that relates or describes that color.
In this lesson you will be given 10 color types. It is your job to mix the color and create a simple shape that relates or describes that color.
Tips:
Try to keep the shapes no bigger than the size of your hand.
Size should relate to the meaning of the color.
No soft or blurry edges this time, keep the shape hard-edged.
Every shape/color has a personality.
Make the shapes as non-representational as possible.
I. Create a shape that matches each color.
II. Explain why each shape is 'perfect' for the color.
The ingredients:
1. light bluish purple
2. medium saturated purplish red
3. muted medium light brownish green
4. saturated medium green
5. medium dark grayish blue
6. medium light saturated purplish blue
7. medium light saturated yellow orange
8. medium light saturated greenish yellow
9. medium dark reddish brown
10. medium pure gray
Now that you have your colors, get mixing! Chop Chop!
I've been cooking up some designs for you to inspire you, here they are:
1. light bluish purple
2. medium saturated purplish red
3. muted medium light brownish green
ok, so I already taste that somethings not quite right, just looking at my designs is helping me perfect my recipies. I'll get back in the kitchen and tweak a few things here and there. Maybe the HP Color Thesaurus could help me out.
I've been cooking up some designs for you to inspire you, here they are:
1. light bluish purple
2. medium saturated purplish red
3. muted medium light brownish green
4. saturated medium green
5. medium dark grayish blue
6. medium light saturated purplish blue
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i forgot to do this one!
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i forgot to do this one!
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops!
i forgot to do this one!
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops!
i forgot to do this one!
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops!
i forgot to do this one!
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops!
i forgot to do this one!
7. medium light saturated yellow orange
8. medium light saturated greenish yellow
9. medium dark reddish brown
10. medium pure gray
10. medium pure gray
ok, so I already taste that somethings not quite right, just looking at my designs is helping me perfect my recipies. I'll get back in the kitchen and tweak a few things here and there. Maybe the HP Color Thesaurus could help me out.
Lesson #1 - Leitmotif.
For our first lesson, you will create a design, using your favorite color. This design should be simple in both form & composition. It may either be hard or soft-edged. Use your favorite color as your leitmotif and combine it with other colors to create a visually appealing whole. Make sure you put time into mixing your ingredients! Apply the color opaque, avoiding shade variation. Also, be sure to make some sketches before you start.
Here is my first design:
I'm not satisfied with that one, so I will try a faster more free style this time:
I'm much happier with this one. What do you think?
Here is my first design:
I'm not satisfied with that one, so I will try a faster more free style this time:
I'm much happier with this one. What do you think?
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Objective
Color Cook Book places practice before theory. We encourage you to experiment with new color "recipes" and learn from experience the ways that colors behave in front of our eyes, how colors interact with each other and how you can use color effectively and meaningfully in the making of your "recipes". Below are some essential readings on both old and new color theories to relate your own "cooking" to artists and theorists of the past and present. Our objective is through practice to deepen your understanding of color in life and science!
David Hornung: Color, a workshop approach
Josef Albers: Interaction of Color
Martin Kemp: The Science of Art
John Gage: Color and Meaning
John Gage: Color and Culture
Hazel Rossotti: Colour; why the world isn't gray
David Batchelor: Chromophobia
David Hornung: Color, a workshop approach
Josef Albers: Interaction of Color
Martin Kemp: The Science of Art
John Gage: Color and Meaning
John Gage: Color and Culture
Hazel Rossotti: Colour; why the world isn't gray
David Batchelor: Chromophobia
Monday, January 7, 2008
Definitions
20/20 Vision : 20/20 Vision indicates perfect visual acuity.
Achromatic : A color without hue, including White, Black and Gray only.
Adaptation : This allows us to see in many different intensities of light.
Amplitude : The distance in which a wave travels from its horizontal axis.
Analogous Color Scheme : Using colors that lie next to one another on the color wheel.
Angle : of Incidence : The angle at which light strikes a surface. This angle is measured from the light ray to the normal.
Angle : of Reflection : The angle at which light is reflected off of a surface. This angle, measured between the light ray and the normal, is equal to the angle of incidence.
Aperture : The opening in your eye that limits the quantity of light that enters.
Aqueous Humor : The limped, watery liquid that fills the area between the cornea and the lens.
Brightness : Measurement of the intensity of light/
Choroid : The Choroid is responsible for "normal" black irises and red eyes in photographs.
Chromatic : A color with hue, including Red, Green and Violet, etc.
Ciliary Muscles : The smooth muscle in the ciliary body that accommodates the eye.
CMV : CMV is an abbreviation for Cytomegalovirus, which attacks epithelial cells in the body.
Color : Described by the three dimensions - hue, value and intensity.
Complementary Color Scheme : Using colors directly opposite on the color wheel.
Cool (Receding) Colors : Greens, Blues and Violets.
Cones : Cones are photo-sensitive cells used for front and high-light vision. It is also named after its shape.
Congenital : Compatible [with the eye]
Construction : The process of putting together a series of visual clues to understand an image.
Density : A measure of how much of a substance exists in a certain amount of space.
Diabetes : A disease that impairs the ability of the body to use sugar and causes it to appear abnormally in the body.
Diurnal : Types of animals that stay awake during the day, when there is sunlight. Humans are an example.
Electromagnetism : The relationship between a changing electric field and a changing magnetic field.
Frequency : A measure of a wave’s speed of oscillation. Often measured by how many wavelengths pass a point in a period of time.
Hertz : Unit of measure for frequency. On Hertz represents one oscillation per second.
Hue : A specific color family name, with its relative degree of brightness of warmness or coolness.
Hypoglycemia : An abnormally low level of glucose, when pertaining to blood
Hypothalamus : An important section of the brain that regulates body temperature, blood pressure, heartbeat, metabolism, expression of emotions and sexual behaviors.
Incidence : In Physics, incidence refers to the arrival of radiation or a projectile at a surface.
Key Color : Dominant color in a color scheme and mixture.
Leitmotif : (leading motive) a dominant or re-occurring theme.
Lightness : Known usually as the "shade" of a color, and is measured and grey-scale, from black to white.
Luminance : Brightness and intensity of light.
Luminous : Luminous means "to glow." Cat's eyes seem to be creating light when they are actually reflecting it.
Macula : Area of discoloration on the skin, caused by lack or excess of pigment.
Mirror : Any reflective surface, usually a flat, transparent, polished glass backed with a silver coating.
Monochromatic Color Scheme: Using one color in different values.
Nanometer : One billionths of a meter.
Neutral Gray : Combination of Black and White.
Nocturnal : Types of animals that stay awake at night when there is little light present.
Normal : In Mathematics, the condition of being perpendicular.
Optical : Density : The measurement of how slowly light passes through an substance.
Oscillate : To swing back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm. (From the Latin oscillare, meaning swing.)
Peripheral Vision : Vision that is described as being "out of the corner of an eye," or in other words, out of the direct line of sight.
Phenomenal : Sense: Philosophers use the word phenomenal to mean an object that appears real to the mind, regardless of whether its underlying existence is proved or its nature understood.
Photometer : A device used to detect change and intensity of light.
Photopic : Phos is a Greek word meaning "light."
Pineal : Gland : A pea-sized gland in the brain that affects the human biological clock; including sleep and temperature patterns.
Pituitary : Gland : A small, oval gland at the base of the brain that controls hormone production, affecting growth, maturation and metabolism.
Plexiform Layer : Plexus means network, referring to the network of nerves in the eye.
Primary colors : Red, Yellow and Blue- cannot be mixed from any other colors.
Rays : Ray Model of Light A model which presents light as energy that travels in rays, or straight beams.
Real Image : An image that has light where the image appears to be.
Reflection : The act of returning a light wave upon its contact with a reflective surface
Refraction : The turning or bending of any wave, such as light and sound, when it passes
Relative : Sense : The sense in which we see objects that really do exist.
Retina : Reta is Latin for net, referring to the net of nerves that makes up the retina.
Rods : Rods are photo-sensitive cells used for peripheral and low-light vision. It is named after its shape.
Saturation : is the colorfulness of a stimulus relative to its own brightness.
Sclera : A dense, white membrane that, with the cornea, forms the external covering of the eyeball.
Scotopic : Skotos is a Greek word meaning "darkness."
Secondary colors : Two primary colors mixed together, resulting in orange, green and violet.
Shade : Color + Black.
Simultaneous : Brightness Contrast : Describes how we use the colors around an object to help to determine the color of that object.
Simultaneous contrast : refers to the manner in which the colors of two different objects affect each other. The effect is more noticeable when shared between objects of complementary color.
Simultaneous Lightness Contrast : Uses inhibition to make similar images
Split-Complementary Color Scheme : Using one color plus the two colors next to its complement on the color wheel.
Subjective : Generally, subjective refers to something particular to the point of the view of the viewer. In Psychology, subjective refers to something existing only in the observer’s mind.
Tertiary (Intermediate) Colors : One primary and one secondary mixed together.
Tetrad : Four colors equally spaced on the color wheel.
Three-dimensional : This term refers to height, width and depth.
Tint : Color + White.
Tone : Color + Gray or its compliment.
Triad : Three colors equally spaced on the color wheel.
Two-dimensional: This term refers to only height and width.
Undulate : To move in a small wave-like formation. (From the Latin undulare, meaning small wave.)
Value: The relative degree of lightness or darkness of a color.
View : Generic View Principle : The assumption our eyes make that accept you are seeing an object from a generic view, or a non-accidental view.
Virtual : Image : An image from which rays of reflected or refracted light appear to diverge, as from an image seen in a plane mirror.
Vitreous Humor : The transparent, gelatinous substance that occupies the eyeball behind the lens.
Warm (Advancing) Colors : Reds, Oranges and Yellows.
Wave : A disturbance traveling through a medium by which energy is transferred from one particle to another without causing permanent displacement of the medium itself.
Wavelength : The distance it takes a wave to make one full undulation.
Achromatic : A color without hue, including White, Black and Gray only.
Adaptation : This allows us to see in many different intensities of light.
Amplitude : The distance in which a wave travels from its horizontal axis.
Analogous Color Scheme : Using colors that lie next to one another on the color wheel.
Angle : of Incidence : The angle at which light strikes a surface. This angle is measured from the light ray to the normal.
Angle : of Reflection : The angle at which light is reflected off of a surface. This angle, measured between the light ray and the normal, is equal to the angle of incidence.
Aperture : The opening in your eye that limits the quantity of light that enters.
Aqueous Humor : The limped, watery liquid that fills the area between the cornea and the lens.
Brightness : Measurement of the intensity of light/
Choroid : The Choroid is responsible for "normal" black irises and red eyes in photographs.
Chromatic : A color with hue, including Red, Green and Violet, etc.
Ciliary Muscles : The smooth muscle in the ciliary body that accommodates the eye.
CMV : CMV is an abbreviation for Cytomegalovirus, which attacks epithelial cells in the body.
Color : Described by the three dimensions - hue, value and intensity.
Complementary Color Scheme : Using colors directly opposite on the color wheel.
Cool (Receding) Colors : Greens, Blues and Violets.
Cones : Cones are photo-sensitive cells used for front and high-light vision. It is also named after its shape.
Congenital : Compatible [with the eye]
Construction : The process of putting together a series of visual clues to understand an image.
Density : A measure of how much of a substance exists in a certain amount of space.
Diabetes : A disease that impairs the ability of the body to use sugar and causes it to appear abnormally in the body.
Diurnal : Types of animals that stay awake during the day, when there is sunlight. Humans are an example.
Electromagnetism : The relationship between a changing electric field and a changing magnetic field.
Frequency : A measure of a wave’s speed of oscillation. Often measured by how many wavelengths pass a point in a period of time.
Hertz : Unit of measure for frequency. On Hertz represents one oscillation per second.
Hue : A specific color family name, with its relative degree of brightness of warmness or coolness.
Hypoglycemia : An abnormally low level of glucose, when pertaining to blood
Hypothalamus : An important section of the brain that regulates body temperature, blood pressure, heartbeat, metabolism, expression of emotions and sexual behaviors.
Incidence : In Physics, incidence refers to the arrival of radiation or a projectile at a surface.
Key Color : Dominant color in a color scheme and mixture.
Leitmotif : (leading motive) a dominant or re-occurring theme.
Lightness : Known usually as the "shade" of a color, and is measured and grey-scale, from black to white.
Luminance : Brightness and intensity of light.
Luminous : Luminous means "to glow." Cat's eyes seem to be creating light when they are actually reflecting it.
Macula : Area of discoloration on the skin, caused by lack or excess of pigment.
Mirror : Any reflective surface, usually a flat, transparent, polished glass backed with a silver coating.
Monochromatic Color Scheme: Using one color in different values.
Nanometer : One billionths of a meter.
Neutral Gray : Combination of Black and White.
Nocturnal : Types of animals that stay awake at night when there is little light present.
Normal : In Mathematics, the condition of being perpendicular.
Optical : Density : The measurement of how slowly light passes through an substance.
Oscillate : To swing back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm. (From the Latin oscillare, meaning swing.)
Peripheral Vision : Vision that is described as being "out of the corner of an eye," or in other words, out of the direct line of sight.
Phenomenal : Sense: Philosophers use the word phenomenal to mean an object that appears real to the mind, regardless of whether its underlying existence is proved or its nature understood.
Photometer : A device used to detect change and intensity of light.
Photopic : Phos is a Greek word meaning "light."
Pineal : Gland : A pea-sized gland in the brain that affects the human biological clock; including sleep and temperature patterns.
Pituitary : Gland : A small, oval gland at the base of the brain that controls hormone production, affecting growth, maturation and metabolism.
Plexiform Layer : Plexus means network, referring to the network of nerves in the eye.
Primary colors : Red, Yellow and Blue- cannot be mixed from any other colors.
Rays : Ray Model of Light A model which presents light as energy that travels in rays, or straight beams.
Real Image : An image that has light where the image appears to be.
Reflection : The act of returning a light wave upon its contact with a reflective surface
Refraction : The turning or bending of any wave, such as light and sound, when it passes
Relative : Sense : The sense in which we see objects that really do exist.
Retina : Reta is Latin for net, referring to the net of nerves that makes up the retina.
Rods : Rods are photo-sensitive cells used for peripheral and low-light vision. It is named after its shape.
Saturation : is the colorfulness of a stimulus relative to its own brightness.
Sclera : A dense, white membrane that, with the cornea, forms the external covering of the eyeball.
Scotopic : Skotos is a Greek word meaning "darkness."
Secondary colors : Two primary colors mixed together, resulting in orange, green and violet.
Shade : Color + Black.
Simultaneous : Brightness Contrast : Describes how we use the colors around an object to help to determine the color of that object.
Simultaneous contrast : refers to the manner in which the colors of two different objects affect each other. The effect is more noticeable when shared between objects of complementary color.
Simultaneous Lightness Contrast : Uses inhibition to make similar images
Split-Complementary Color Scheme : Using one color plus the two colors next to its complement on the color wheel.
Subjective : Generally, subjective refers to something particular to the point of the view of the viewer. In Psychology, subjective refers to something existing only in the observer’s mind.
Tertiary (Intermediate) Colors : One primary and one secondary mixed together.
Tetrad : Four colors equally spaced on the color wheel.
Three-dimensional : This term refers to height, width and depth.
Tint : Color + White.
Tone : Color + Gray or its compliment.
Triad : Three colors equally spaced on the color wheel.
Two-dimensional: This term refers to only height and width.
Undulate : To move in a small wave-like formation. (From the Latin undulare, meaning small wave.)
Value: The relative degree of lightness or darkness of a color.
View : Generic View Principle : The assumption our eyes make that accept you are seeing an object from a generic view, or a non-accidental view.
Virtual : Image : An image from which rays of reflected or refracted light appear to diverge, as from an image seen in a plane mirror.
Vitreous Humor : The transparent, gelatinous substance that occupies the eyeball behind the lens.
Warm (Advancing) Colors : Reds, Oranges and Yellows.
Wave : A disturbance traveling through a medium by which energy is transferred from one particle to another without causing permanent displacement of the medium itself.
Wavelength : The distance it takes a wave to make one full undulation.
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