ART 113
Color
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Red Installation-
Homage to Each Red Thing" by Alison Knowles.
The color red first and foremost means stop yet I understand that restaurants and bars use the color for consumer purposes. the color red evokes emotion, passion, and seduction. I think the
It was very easy to gather subjects for the installation. So many consumer goods are pinned for the the treatment of red.
Color Wheel and Value Scale
Project Overview:
This project will allow you practice in the art of pigment mixing by creating a traditional color wheel - 12 step achromatic value scale, and a 10 step tint and shade scale using your acrylic paints. This assignment will be done on your Bristol Board Vellum - finished size 11x14in.
Color wheel:
Make the outer circle of your wheel or desired shape about 7 to 8 inches in diameter. This will serve as just a guide for you as you determine how you want to assemble your color wheel. Your wheel should be divided into 12 equal sections. The primary, secondary, and tertiary color positions should match the diagram in your book or color wheel. Whatever shapes you choose to use for your wheel, it will be helpful to paint your colors on a separate piece of Bristol board and then cut the shapes out, then adhere to the illustration board for your final color wheel.
Achromatic Scale and Tonal Saturation Chart-
Project Overview:
This project will allow you practice in the art of pigment mixing by creating a traditional color wheel - 12 step achromatic value scale, and a 10 step tint and shade scale using your acrylic paints. This assignment will be done on your Bristol Board Vellum - finished size 11x14in.
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Color wheel:
Make the outer circle of your wheel or desired shape about 7 to 8 inches in diameter. This will serve as just a guide for you as you determine how you want to assemble your color wheel. Your wheel should be divided into 12 equal sections. The primary, secondary, and tertiary color positions should match the diagram in your book or color wheel. Whatever shapes you choose to use for your wheel, it will be helpful to paint your colors on a separate piece of Bristol board and then cut the shapes out, then adhere to the illustration board for your final color wheel.
Selfless Self-Portraits-
General Overview
Create a self-portrait without a representational depiction of your body while using subjective, emotional, and symbolic association to color. Think of this project as a visual autobiography.
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Selfless Self-Portraits
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Practice associating color to emotion, psychology, culture, symbolism, and your own subjective stances.
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Rethink your go-to art medium/materials
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Experiment with conceptual connections to color
Activist Painting & Color Creating
General Overview:
Create one activist painting that is influenced by a researched activist artist, taking inspiration from the artistic style, textual language, colors, or activist message used by the artist/s. Create a preliminary design/mock-up (collage, or digital rendering) of your painting; then, match the colors to the best of your ability in mixed acrylic paint.
Objectives:
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Practice creating color within the Subtractive Color System
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Gain experience with acrylic paint
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Demonstrate color matching between pigmented objects and digital monitors.
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Demonstrate using art as an activist tool
Albers Principles of Color Interaction Project
Complimentary Color Interaction
General Overview:
Find relationships and reactions to the complimentary colors
Objectives:
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Practice researching and locating sources for the interactions.
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Demonstrate working knowledge of color schemes.
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Demonstrate your choice of medium and art practice to problem solve and integrate art into a the color interaction work.
Public Art Project
General Overview:
Find a public space that could use some color. This may be a mural, a public art installation, a sculpture, or a performative piece, etc.
Objectives:
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Practice researching and scoping out public spaces.
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Demonstrate working knowledge of color schemes.
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Demonstrate your choice of medium and art practice to problem solve and integrate art into a public space.
Local and Relational Color Form and Color
General Overview:
Render an object using the elements of Form and Color. This object should be: A person (portrait), animal, 3-Dimensional object, shapes, an abstract arrangement, text, etc. The color choice for the background must be intentional and you must be able to defend the relationship between the colors of the background and your object.
Objectives:
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Practice researching and applying an understanding of form and color.
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Demonstrate working knowledge of local, tonal, and reflected color.
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Be able to perceive chromatic distinctions, identify colors seen and recreate the colors.
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Accurately color in appropriate places to furnish a rendered object with volume and light through nuances of hue, value, and color temperature.
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Demonstrate your choice of medium and art practice to problem solve and integrate form and color.