Ego research/journal 1

People of colour have rights too!! #BlackLivesMatter

Oh wait. Not that type of colour?

So for this week’s lesson we were told to write down some of our positive attributes and hopes in 5 years time, and have our classmates contribute.

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I thought the activity was a good opportunity to see yourself from the class’s perspective but I probably won’t be relying too much on it for project 3. Activities like this depend a lot on a person’s current mood and recent interactions with classmates, and I’ve always found it hard to do a quick yet accurate summary of my life.

To be honest I suck at colour theory/matching and it is one of the more urgent issues I want to address in ADM so I’ll have to watch a lot more tutorials. In the meanwhile here’s a cool online game you can play to help your colour matching http://color.method.ac

2 posters I find very useful for colour idiots like me (links only as the images are way too big for OSS)

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So from my research on colour I learned that warm colours (like red) advance and cool colours (like blue) recede, and I see a lot of potential ideas stemming from this.

I am also very inspired by how this artist Magnus Voll Mathiassen uses different contrasting colours to create his pieces.

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Some studies on colour

A photograph with strong contrasting colours by The Devious Moose

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Analogous colour scheme

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Matt Roeser
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Amanda Jasnowski

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Triadic colour scheme

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Reference artists:

Alex Brewer. I am very intrigued at Alex Brewer’s use of various colours in his compositions and am trying to study them to see what emotions/feelings they evoke.

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