Color Project

Reflection Overall

Working with both paint and photography was a fun and interesting challenge. I found that with paint, you had to be more decisive about strokes and color choices, as there really was no delete button. It was nice to be able to take many photographs and then select a few, whereas in paint you could only create the four, with no more to chose from. I surprised myself by being more comfortable in paint. I enjoyed mixing colors, something that came quite naturally to me.

Painting Color Schemes

From the top left clockwise: Complementary, monochormatic, triadic, analogous. My goal of this project was to created a series that displayed the four color schemes in a balanced, relatively clean-cut way. The top two  paintings were designed to be relatively clean, with intentional strokes that followed the pencil lines. In the triadic painting, I tried to make the color VERY monotone, with almost indistinguishable strokes. This was achieved by using a very small brush and mixing the paint all at once, instead of as i went along. The analogous painting was designed to be a much freer interpretation of the paint jar. Several of my group members enjoyed the compostition and placement of the paint jar on the page. Another group member enjoyed how the paintings were similar at a distance, but quite different close up. One suggestion was to vary my color schemes more to include greens and purples. Overall, group feedback was positive, with a general consensus that it was nice to have a cleaner cut piece among several more expressive works.

Photoshop Color Schemes

Analogous

This is a tiling of an analogous pattern of leaves that I found in a bush. The three different colored 

squares represent colors from the image, and they help bring theses 4 copies of an image together.

Complementary

The red fire-hydrant and the green grass are complementary colors. The pattern at the bottom is designed to mimic the shape of the hydrant. Colors from the design were drawn directly from the image.

Monochromatic

In this image of leaves, the only/most prominent color is a bright shade of green. The triangular variations of the color green are intended to mimic the triangular-like patterns  and direction of the leaves.

Triadic

This is an image that I set up myself, because a triadic color scheme is difficult to find in nature. The design around it was meant to be a continuation of the image itself. The colors of the rectangles were directly drawn from the image itself.