Assignment 2

Creating Space  This second assignment challenged students to rework the color formulas used from the first assignment to match their given color scenarios for this project. This complex assignment consists of three different parts.

   To begin with, students were asked to create four panels with four diverse color worlds using a color scenario that was given. (My project involved a secondary color scenario.) After amassing four different color worlds with twenty-three different colors, those colors were the only colors that could be applied to the final part of the project, the main landscape (as seen the bottom picture.)

Cropped Piranesi Design

   The second stage involved creating a rendering from an original sketch of Giovanni Battista Piranaesi's work. Taking and cropping a section of one of his architectural designs, students were then asked to abstract Piranesi's original into shapes and lines that would create deep space in the final piece (that would use the same hues from the first four panels.)

Original Rendering

    Lastly, students were told to create deep space on the atmospherical side of the final piece and shallow space on the abstract side all while maintaining a sense of symmetry between both sides of the work. We were allowed to tint or shade hues in order to create space. 
   In my personal project, I worked to create deep space on the left side of my board using hues that were dull with a lower intensity in the "building" towards the top left corner of the page. In what would be the middle ground,I kept the colors more dull, but played up the intensity in the greens and violets. Finally, in the foreground I used leading lines to aid in pushing the more intense colors forward on the page. Moving onto the abstract side, I made small changes in the rendering, but mainly focused on changing the color hues to flatten the space. As shown on the abstract side, most of the colors are saturated. There is not a large range from dull to intense color because I wanted to eliminate the deep space that was created on the opposite side. In order to maintain a sense of symmetry, I maintained similar color worlds in each section of the piece, background, middle ground, and foreground, but as mentioned before, switched up the hues to abstract the space. 
   Overall this project was extremely challenging due to the great amount of colors used and rendering the design. I learned how to create deep space using cool hues that are dull to pull back, or recede in space, while warm, high intensity colors push forward in space.