Assignment 5

Original Painting

Photoshopped Edit (Printed Version)

A Brave New Transparent World  Assignment Five pushed students to work with creating unique color worlds and combing colors to make illusions of transparencies. The first part of the assignment involved going through the color aid and finding three colors. Two that created the illusion of transparency in the third color. The process continued through choosing a total of 16 colors (including the original three) to create a unique color world. 
    The goal was to transition from one color, through the neutral, and then onto the next color. Adding in a "funky" color, or a color that wouldn't normally be considered harmonious was advised to make our color worlds unique and stand out. The colors chosen were equally as important as the quantity given to each color (as seen in the key.) I personally struggled with finding my initial three colors that created the illusion of transparency. I tried to work with complementary colors when creating the transparency. However, after figuring that out, finding colors in the rest of the key was intriguing.  I enjoyed mixing and matching using the color aid to see what worked together and what didn't. It was in this stage that I really learned how "funky" colors do have a place in every color scenario.
  As for the project itself, students were told to mix the colors and paint an asymmetrical design featuring the illusion of transparencies. The painting would be later edited on photoshop and printed out on a larger scale. Upon my initial rendering, I felt my design was too simple and after discussing with my professor, I added text as a form of source imagery. I embedded the word "the" in different forms across the work. I made sure to maintain the color quantity and the color associations in my color key in the final painting. For me, this project was vital in learning and experiencing how colors work together. Upon reflection, I got caught up in figuring out the placement of every color and wish I had integrated transparencies more. I really grasped the concept that color worlds don't always have to go "together" the way one thinks they should. I embraced adding in accent colors to make the design "pop" and look forward to experimenting with creating more unique and varied color worlds in the future.