Since you've been doing a lot of hard work, I thought it would be good to go on a field trip. For this exercise, I would like you to go out to a museum or gallery (or if you are hungry maybe a fancy restaurant with artistically created dishes). Look around for a while, what do you see? Choose an piece of artwork that you think is about color. It may be a good idea to take your color wheel, a notebook and a pen to write down some notes. Answer these 8 questions:
1. Write down the Artist, Title, Year, Medium, Materials and Dimensions of the artwork.
2. Descibe the hues that are used.
3. Descibe the saturation levels of the artwork.
4. Descibe the color values of the piece.
5. Are there neutral colors (black, white, gray) used? Which ones and how?
6. Make a rough estimate of the percentage of each color that is used
7. What kinds of shapes and spaces are used/
8. How do the colors relate to the Title and Content of the work?
After you have studied the work for a while, go back to the "kitchen" and get cooking.
The ingredients for this exercise will be the same as the Artist's palette of the work you have studied. Your goal is to accurately match the colors. You may reinterpret or change the design and amount of each color as you wish. You the words and other information that you recorded to help you mix your palette.
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