Dear readers,
Today I spent time with the 5th assignment for Jane Davies colour course.
The assignment was to make a lot of colour swatches, put them together and find out how the different background changes the colour in the middle.
I found this very difficult, and I am not really getting much further with this one.
I remember that the opticien who tested my eyes also asked me this question: ‘which one is brighter, the red or the green dot (against a certain background)?? And I always felt really dumb, because I could not see it…
The only thing I see is that as a colour is put against the opposite colour as a background, it obviously looks brighter, and jumps more in the eye. But that was already common knowledge.
Do you have ideas about this?
bye!
Simone
Great common sense here. Wish I’d thought of that.
Yes Dotty, I have been thinking about something similar.
Eventhough I sometimes feel a bit ‘bored’ by all this colour-stuff (see what I wrote on 22 april), I caught myself watching at somebody’s clothes todat, thinking: hmm, aubergine-purple and light turquoise: actually a great colour-combination! So something is slowly entering my mind…
I was thinking: I have a very big box of ‘beautiful photo’s’ (most nature-things, that I cut from nature-magazines). I can use them purely to make colour-studies.
Thanks for this inspiration!
It is a good idea to
Hi Simone, my idea is this: keep these swatches as resource material in your studio. They provide a way to look at various color combinations before committing to canvas if you so choose. They also provide a reference point for combinations that you like—combinations that appeal to YOUR eye, no matter what color theory might state.