Bethel University Color Studies: Color Interaction Studies

Assignment #5

Guidelines

In Assignment #5, you will be doing your own experiments done within the parameters of Josef Albers’s method.
This will require that each page have a series of paired concentric squares.
Each square will be 2”x2” with a ½” square in its center.
Use the measurements provided here to organize each sheet of 9”x12” Bristol board into 8 pairs of concentric squares with a 2”x9” space at the bottom for writing notes.
After you draw the grid onto each page, erase all lines that cross into the margins around and between each pair.
This is to ensure that the colors you place on the page will only be interacting with each other and the pure white of the paper without interference from your graphite lines.

5A (pg 70)

Try to make alter only the value of a single color by changing its surroundings.

Hue and saturation are not present, so this is a fairly simple task.
4 pairs in which you alter only the value (and not the hue) in full color at various saturation levels.
The presence of hue this time complicates the experiment. Try your best not to alter the hue of your central color.

5B (pg 70)

`8 pairs in which you alter only the hue (and not the value) in full color at various saturation levels.

5C (pg 71)

Try to invert the procedure and attempt to make two different colors look as much alike as possible.

5D (pg 71)

Try to give specific colors within the composition at least two different identities throughout your design
The book says to use cut paper collage, and you can, but you may also use gouache.

Free Study

Create at least one composition on 9”x12” Bristol board that either carries over ideas from the color interaction assignments you’ve just done or conduct color experiments of your own.
This composition can be in a format of your own choosing.

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