Final

https://vimeo.com/164604937

For my final project, I chose to focus on light, something we use to keep us alert and energized. Lights are often flashy and colorful at night, but when juxtaposed against calming music, they can appear more dreamy and relaxing, which I hope to have achieved in the final product. 

Project 5 - Flag

Matte and Glossy Colors

Project 5 Sketches and Colors

analagous

Going Bananas!

Animation portion of Project 4

Project 4

Transparency Illustrator Design

Project 3

Left: One color as Two

Right: Two colors as One

Transparency effect

Project 2 - Vibrating Edges

Completed Vibrating Edges Project mounted on Illustration board.

Simultaneous Contrast Charts

Patterns

Advancing and Receding Colors/Successive Contrast

"One cannot focus perfectly on all hues at the same time" - page 24

Project One

The two photos above complete the assignment for project one. The color wheel is on top, consisting of blue tints and shades which I used for my composition on the bottom. I chose this hue for my painting because I familiarized myself with blue tints and shades to place above my color wheel, so I felt most comfortable working with blue again. I am not very familiar with the other colors's tints and shades, so I chose one that I had already worked with briefly.

Munsell Charts

Above, you can view my completed Munsell charts of each of the different hues. I found this exercise to be challenging because colors often play tricks with your mind, making it hard to decipher where to place the swatches. I had a fairly easy time arranging the warmer colors, while the cooler colors were more on the difficult side.

Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

Director Wes Anderson is famous for his exceptional use of color in all of his movies. He has a very distinct style in his work that makes his films easily recognizable. In Moonrise Kingdom, he used especially vibrant colors, making the picture appear very whimsical and cheerful, even though the underlying meaning in the film is very sad. As a photography major, the color in Wes Anderson's work really sticks out to me because I am used to taking photos of my surroundings, where I don't have any control over the colors around me, and it is obvious that Anderson deliberately chose this vibrant, warm toned color scheme.