Color Interaction

The color interation project was a good exercise on changing the perception of how a color looks. I was able to accomplish this change of perception by focusing on three aspects; value, color/subtraction, and compliments.

The seven pieces varied from being very challenging to easy to work with. For instance problem 3 was my biggest chalenge, it took me the longest to achieve getting the two colors in the middle to look alike. Problem 4 was the easiest challenge, where I simply focused on getting two color that constrasted with each other and are each others compliment. This however strained my eyes the most where I learned that by stairing at the small black dot in the middle for 30 seconds burns your retna. When you look at a white sheet of paper with a small black dot after the 30 seconds you will then see the outlining and color variation of your original piece.

I had no idea on the different ways of changing colors that tricks the human eye. I gained a deeper understanding of changing color perception, this is first step of mastering optical illusions. The Bezold effect is the perfect example that i worked on that creates an optical illusion. It was named after Wihelm von Bezold, a German proffesor of meterolog (Wikipedia).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezold_Effect

Painting Reflective Object

I choose to paint the top of a pan considering that it was the best reflected object in my apartment. I enjoyed this project the most out of all the painting we have done this year. This was a fun challenging assignment that was based off preciseness. I further enjoyed the fact that we where to incorporate a still life object and then paint it's reflections. This assignment had more depth and learning to it.

I once did a project slightly similar to this my junior year in high school when I had to draw the reflections of a glass cup. We drew with a white colored pencil on a brown 8 X 10 sheet of construction paper. Both of these projects have one thing in common and that is focusing on light. In these two types of of objects, the top of pan and glass cup, light is reflected upon them where the piece for a still life becomes a lot more complex to draw. Practicing to draw still life's with reflected objects trains your eye to see the detailed imagery that light makes up in its reflections.

After completing this project I took with me the practices of drawing a proportional object, studying the light that is reflected upon its surface and technic when applying the different types of grays. The grey project was very fulfilling where a was able to get a lot of it, even though it was time consuming I did not mine because the outcome was interesting.

Grey

Mixing colors to get grey I believed only involved using whit and black. I was proved wrong when my first attempt to make grey was from the use of primary colors, the outcome was successful. Mixing the colors to get grey takes patience and accuracy. After mixing the colors and the applying it to the bristol the outcome was majority of the time a bit off then what was expected. This was not necessarily such a let down, it allowed me to gain a step closer to getting to the color grey by seeing what more of a color I needed to apply.

Throughout the process of mixing the colors I noticed that you where able to get closer to grey when you add white or you where able to notice what complimentary color you needed. When mixing my colors in compelled to receive the color grey I realized that the more I time I spent making the colors the more I thought it was easier to get grey. I was proved wrong on my last trial when I mixed Phthalocyann Blue with Raw Siena Trying to get a grey out of these two colors seemed to be impossible not matter how much white I added and its complementary color I added.

Making the Grey was a good experience since I have now learned that you don't only need black and white to make the color. I also found that you can have a variety of different types of grays depending on how much of the a complimentary color you apply. For instance when I thought I finally got my grey and then made another one, comparing the two next to each other they looked like two completely different colors but when singling them out they both looked grey.