Color Sketchbook Assignment

Due March 3rd with Color Project

• Design a composition and create 3 versions of it, each on a separate page:
1. A version using only 2 complimentary colors
2. A version using a triadic color palette
3. A version using a split-complementary color palette
• For each version, the composition must stay the same; only the color palette will change.
• Use only the hues you have chosen for each version.  Do not mix them with each other or with black or white.
• Use whatever material you prefer for this assignment, as long as it is a color medium.

Color Theory Terms & Images

• Color Wheel – A circle with different colored sectors used to show the relationship between hues.
• Hue – A pure color from the color wheel that has not been mixed with black or white.
• Saturation –  The intensity of a color, expressed as the degree to which it differs from white or black.
• Primary Colors – The three colors from which, theoretically, all other colors can be mixed:  red, yellow, and blue.
• Secondary Colors – The three colors which can be made by mixing two primaries in equal proportion: orange, green, and violet. 
• Tertiary Colors – Colors which can be made by mixing a primary color and a secondary color.
• Triadic Colors – Color relationships based on any three equidistant hues as shown on the color wheel.
• Complimentary Colors – Colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel that, when combined in the right proportions, neutralize each other.

Collage Assignment: Repetition & Rhythm

Due: Monday, February 20

Assignment:

1. Organize a sheet of 18”x24” paper by creating a 1” border on all four sides.
2. Within this new picture plane, design a composition that utilizes repetition and rhythm to guide the viewer’s eye around the composition.
3. Using cut and pasted greyscale paper, construct your composition using organic and/or geometric shapes and lines.
4. This time, I don’t mind if some of your shapes are representational, but don’t lean so heavily on representation that you ignore your exploration of rhythm.
5. Assignment (Emphasis & Rhythm/Repetition) due:  Monday, February 20.

Notebook:

• Research the obsessive work of Yayoi Kusama.  Place your notes, images, and any articles into the notebook.

Sketchbook:

1. Create at least 3 possible compositions in the sketchbook BEFORE beginning work on the full-sized collage.  You may use the materials of your choice for these sketches (pencil, charcoal, ink, paint, collage, etc.).
2. Choose the composition you’ll use for the assignment and write some notes about WHY you chose it.
3. Find at least 3 images by artists who use repetition and rhythm to create movement in their work.  Insert images into your sketchbook and write and draw over the images to explain how you see that artist using repetition and/or rhythm.  No more than TWO of them may be artists mentioned in class today.
4. Choose one image and do a master study of it.

Remember that the notebook and sketchbook are turned in with every assignment.