Colours is the activity for this week. I find it very interesting and quite vast. The range of colours seem endless. Perception seems to be the key here. How we as individuals perceive colours and how we apply them as graphic artist to our work to achieve the desired effect or create an impact that gets noticed.
Back to the activities of the week:
1.
RGB: Stands for Red, Green and Blue. It is the colour system used on devices like monitors, digital cameras, scanners, inkjet printers and the web. It is also refered to as additive colours. That means they are colours created with light. It is said to be addictive in nature because we start with darker colours and end with white.It has a wide range of colours.
CMYK: Stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black respectively. The letter “K” here stands for “Key” where Black is the key colour of the group. It is the colour system used in printing and thus refered to as the printer’s colour. It is achieved when we mix colours using paint or pigment. As more colours are added it gets darker and moves towards black. It is said to be subtractive in nature because we start with white and end in black. Its colour range is less than RGB.
2.
Screen shots of four different colour schemes developed with Kuler.
(a.) Monochomatic
(b.) Complementary
(c.) Triadic
(d.) Analogous
Use a colour photo of your choice and create the following colour effects (as per Nigel French’s video) – you should hand in three separate works of the same photo with the following effects:
- Create an “Andy Warhol” look
- Apply a sepia look
- Split toning of the image
- Freestyle: a colour effect of your choice
Andy Warhol look
Serpia look
Split toning of the image
Free style
Original
- Design a book cover for the following:
a.) “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Wolf: use complementary colours to express anguish and uncertainty.
b.) “The Maiden’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood: use analogous colours with a contrasting accent to express disagreement and discontent.
c.) “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery: express naivety, honesty and harmony. - Each book cover must contain the title and the author’s name.
- You must clearly make use of colour to express the desired effects.
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