Year Round School

Well I seem to have been off my game lately, haven't I?

School really kept me busy this past quarter. There were a few days there where I wasn't entirely sure I'd make it through. But here I am! Ever prevailing. And, alas, I am home relaxing - enjoying a short but sweet Spring Break.

Now that I have some free time on my hands, I thought I'd go ahead and update this here blog, which would otherwise be collecting virtual dust. And where better to start than with an actual project I was assigned for my Color Theory class? (As long this isn't meant to be some kind of top secret, paying student information...)

So, this was the first project assigned to the class and let me tell you, it was no small feat.

What we had to do was choose a photo that met the standards of our hard to please aesthetic standards - to which I immediately chose Disney, what else? The image had to be printed to at least 6" x 8". Also, this couldn't be just some plain animated image because it had to have some level of challenge to it. This being said, I had my work cut out for me, finding a relatively large scale picture of a non-animated Disney subject. And after several painful hours of googling, I came upon this beautiful image of some Disney characters in costume from the theme park in front of what seems to be Cinderella's Castle.



The next step in this painful journey was to choose four sections of the image to be dissected. These sections were to be either 1" x 6" or 1.5" x 4", and I chose the latter for all of my sections. The idea for each section was to recreate the values in different color schemes using a construction paper of sorts - if I've lost you already, don't worry. We'll find each other again in a moment.




The first section was to be done in black and white, or achromatic in the art world. Basically, I had about 20 available shades of grey, and I had to match up the shades to their equivalent colors in the image, then meticulously cut them out with an exacto knife and glue them down ever so carefully.


After the achromatic section came the monochromatic section. In other words, you choose one color and find all of its shades and tints (which is what you get
when you add black and white respectively.) This becomes your new grey scale.










The third section from there is the complementary color scheme. Here you choose a color plus it's shades and tints again, and do the same for the color opposite it on the color wheel. I chose blue and orange for mine, taking note that of the two, blue is a cool color and orange is a warm color. Now, the warm color should be applied to the area physically closest to the viewer and the cool color on the further back area.

 



Last is the actual color section. This is just how it sounds. The goal was to match the colors in the image as closely as possible to the colored paper.

And thus...the final product!