dixhuite

Red and Yellow come up a lot in old pulp novels. Particularly yellow as the colour for lettering.Will add more later. MACS are slow as hell. Incidentally I think that apple is good example of the power of colour and design over people as I think it is the main appeal in most of their products. Sorry apple lovers.


Oh the style of thse has reminded me of one my favourite album covers.







Love love love the red dress and the swirly indigo and violet background.

dix-septe

I am studying (a.k.a. a fancy word for looking at pictures of) hooked rugs.
There is some really beautiful colours in some of them that I thought I would share.



This one was made by Emily Carr. Love the yellow green background with orange details.



This one was not made by Emily Carr but was designed after one of her paintings (below).







Appropriate red and warm yellow for Polish Kings and Princes.



Orange and green-an adaptation from a childs drawing.



Orange and Green again in a basket weave pattern. This is an old piece-the person most certainly doesn't have formal art training. Complementary colours come naturally to us I guess.



Also very pretty. My eye is especially attracted to the red flowers and the green and yellow vase.



The random pattern of colours and design is known as "hit or miss" in rug hooking. I think its a hit.

seize

These two Ernst Kirchner images are kind of interesting to me because they both have some of the colour things going on that I have been talking about that I like I a lot-the orange and purple and bright electric pink but they do not appeal to me really in quite the same way. I think maybe it has to do with the prorportions.  The pink doesn't pop quite so much when there is so much of it in the second and I suppose I prefer more purple than orange. I guess maybe it is a balance thing that orange kind of has more weight? 

quinze

Project for drawing.
I guess red and green are complementary but I hardly came up with the idea to make peppers that colour combo myself. Anyway, I don't think red and purple is anything too special-maybe analogous colour scheme? Contrast of saturation maybe? At any rate I like the big bright colours. I find it cheerful.

quattorze-okay I can't spell this high in french

I was kind of thinking about Toulouse Lautrec and specifically the colouring of the woman in the right hand of his painting when I painted this but it didn't really turn out how I wanted it to. I think maybe it is overall too many cool colours on the face in my own paiting. I find it too look kind of tacky or somthing. In other news though I painted it with the new golden open acrylics and was pleased with them.



While we are on the subject of Toulouse Lautrec, the colours in this painting are swoonworthy. I think I might like that magenta ish colour quite a bit. It's also in one of the Paula Rego paintings in previous post.

Treize

Another in-class progect. 6 of 7 of Itten's colour contrasts...



Contrast of Saturation.




Contrast of Hue.




Contrast of Value.



Contrast of Temperature.

(I should have done away with the yellow)



Contrast of Extension.

(The non-blue could be a little smaller but I liked those shapes)

I guess I forgot to save contrast of complementaries. Temperature can pretty much double for the same thing.

Bonus prize if you can guess who this is. 

twelve

I think a lot about things that I don't really understand, or feel that I don't have the capability to understand, concerning colour, music and math. One of the things that I often think about is how we may be able to compare the map of hue waves to maps of waves of musical notes. I cannot find much information on the subject. I think it is something that still needs to be explored.

This site claims that C can be mapped as the colour red as it says that C has the longest wave in colour and in musical notes.

However this site has C mapped out as the colour green. It says that this chart is "completely accurate and non-arbitrary because it is generated by frequency doubling the notes 41 times until we find them in the hertzian band of visible light."

Ugh.

TOO BAD I AM RICH SUPER GENIUS WITH A TEAM OF MORE SUPER GENIUSES AT MY DISPOSABLE.

At any rate this is something I am interested in learning more about but I think I need to understand hertz's and numbers first.

Okay, now I am looking up fibonacci numbers and getting extra confused.

I think I may just try to think about sounds as warm or cool for now. Bye!

eleven

I found a really great colour blog today.

www.livelygrey.com

Also, it had a link to this video on apple which reviews some of the things we have been talking about in colour class.

ten

rainbow of gross

nine

When I first moved into my apartment I intended to paint over the walls. They are green except for this one completely arbitrarily pink painted corner. I am not a huge fan of pink walls but I actually like the arbitrarily painted pink corner now. It brightens up the room without having to live in entirely pink room. The downside is that paintings, or at least my paintings, look terrible against pink background.

eight

In class project making three abstract paintings using different colour harmonies.....



Tetrad Blue-Violet, Red-Orange, Yellow-Green



Split Complementary-Violet, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green

Maybe this would be less gross if there was less orange? It makes me think of the seventies.

This is also the colour scheme of Absolute Comedy.  

The yellow green curtain in the background gets made fun of by comedians all the time. Ugh.   The owner is colourblind.....

Maybe it's memorable though. I'm not sure. I think for a comedy club it's okay but I dunno, I wouldn't pick that as a colour scheme for any other business.

Anwyay back to class projects...

This one is a tetrad combo using Blue, Green, Red and Orange. This one appeals to me the most but it may be less the colours and more just the pattern that they are laid out on the page.

seven

I went for a walk and took some pictures with the idea of colour in mind.

six

I played around in photoshop with the hue in this picture just to show different kind of colour schemes. The top photo is the original...maybe that's obvious....

I noticed that once I changed it to the colours in the last one that it immediately made me think of coca-cola. The red brick with the white kind of swirly lettering is what does it; even though it doesn't look like the actual coca-cola lettering.  Anyway, pretty crazy how powerful of a logo that is that I see red with white curved lines and automatically think of coca-cola.

five

Paula Rego is one of my favourite artists. She is so good at colour. It actually makes me feel a strange kind of colour lust to look at these.