Munsell Scores

I finally have pictures!!~! Except they are really bad quality. Oh well. So these are my Munsell scores that we worked on last week. I think Color Aid needs to have a Munsell color set. The concepts weren't as hard as I thought it would be. Once I read what they are and start choosing colors, it got easier to understand. At first it was definitely hard and the hardest ones for me involved the change in saturation.

On Friday we went to see Warhol's exhibit at Union Station and that was cool. I really don't understand his art work, even after reading the descriptions, but just looking at the colors, they were good combinations. I really enjoyed his line drawings the most since they were very different from what society remembers him by.

We also started shooting our environmental colors and I'm going to do shopping windows, which I think will be fun. I'll post them next time when I have 8 total. Next week we are working on Munsell arrangements with themes and I'm excited for that since there will be a direction unlike these where we started wherever we wanted to.

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Found this while I was stumbling. It's so cool and fun.

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Itten Studies

So I suck officially at taking pictures of all my color studies. But I have decided to mass post them once I get them all back. Promise promise promise. Last week, we worked with Itten color studies that were much easier than our value and saturation studies (I think). There were 8 different contrasts that we worked with and the most difficult, was the simultaneous contrast (for everyone). I somewhat achieved it but I felt like I could've done better. Another one that was wrong was the cold-warm contrast. I thought it was just the comparison between a cold and warm color but apparently, it was suppose to be a gradation from a cold color to a warm color. The study in general was very contrast of value though and that made me somewhat satisfied. Next week we are doing Albers and starting our environmental color studies. I think I'm still doing the shopping windows but I've been looking around and have yet to figure out if that's the final decision since there isn't very colorful windows right now. But we shall see.

The Urge to Make Things

I love the title for this article for some reason. It's serious as well as playful. Anyways, the article was so inspirational. I loved the quote about the painter paints a tree and in that process, he becomes the tree. I also thought that it was clever that the writer wanted to be a bell when he grew up. That was cute. In regards to my mark making, it definitely made me more self conscious about my marks. At first I was drawing shapes with them and as I continued on, I just made them into stamps. Then I realized I was trying to capture the essence of my objects in one single stamp (which was hard) but I felt like I have achieved that. I think I have to meditate more about becoming one with the object like the Chinese painter, or at least something close to that.

Connotation and Denotation

Connotation is what is pictured whereas denotation is how it is pictured. The example the writer used was a child. I thought this was a good example since it is something that we all can relate to. I also liked how it was in the context of photography and how color plays a part in the reader's mind as well. This reading helps the understand of connotation and denotation more than the dictionary does since it gives an example. In regards to my haiku, there is a line in there that says "Shall I light the lamp?" One of my shape is based on the word "radiance" so I drew like this pinwheel looking thing. The connotative side of it is that it pictures a radiance and it is denotative since it looks like a pinwheel and not like a star.