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    Color Exercises

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    This document provides instructions for three color exercises: 1) Create 10 textural colors using traditional and mixed media, then scan and digitally alter them. 2) Create color charts to explore emotional responses to different color palettes, such as pleasing, sad, or angry colors. 3) Test your memory of an entire color palette by recreating the colors from a familiar image, then compare your palette to the original.

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    This document provides instructions for three color exercises: 1) Create 10 textural colors using traditional and mixed media, then scan and digitally alter them. 2) Create color charts to explore emotional responses to different color palettes, such as pleasing, sad, or angry colors. 3) Test your memory of an entire color palette by recreating the colors from a familiar image, then compare your palette to the original.

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    This document provides instructions for three color exercises: 1) Create 10 textural colors using traditional and mixed media, then scan and digitally alter them. 2) Create color charts to explore emotional responses to different color palettes, such as pleasing, sad, or angry colors. 3) Test your memory of an entire color palette by recreating the colors from a familiar image, then compare your palette to the original.

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    This document provides instructions for three color exercises: 1) Create 10 textural colors using traditional and mixed media, then scan and digitally alter them. 2) Create color charts to explore emotional responses to different color palettes, such as pleasing, sad, or angry colors. 3) Test your memory of an entire color palette by recreating the colors from a familiar image, then compare your palette to the original.

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    Try your hand at these Color Exercises:

    Hybrid Color Creation


    Too much time spent on the computer means that you aren’t getting your hands dirty...or
    caked with color!

    Using only physical materials, create 10 textural colors made from any traditional or mixed
    traditional media that you want. Textures can be made from found objects, stamps, paint
    splatters, and non traditional tools, pigments can be found in the kitchen cabinet, art supply
    store or nature and surfaces can be anything that will hold a pigment. Scan textures using
    Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, or any program, adding to or altering the textures with
    color and effects from the program used. Save the digital/traditional color textures and use in
    your next project.

    Charting a Color Emotion


    Refer to the Chapter 6, Video 6: Charting a Color Family, and create a
    color chart.

    There are a number of charts suggested in this chapter. Knowing that we respond to colors
    based on intuition and emotion - with any materials that you choose, create color charts based
    on your emotional response.

    *Choose a set of colors that you find jarring and awful together. Then make a simple grid chart
    to see what the palette of colors would look like, varying value and intensity of the colors. The
    number of colors and variation on the colors (intensity and value) is up to you.

    The basic layout would look like this...

    Course: Foundations of Color with Mary Jane Begin


    Task Evaluation 1 of 2
    *Choose a set of colors that are pleasing, pretty, and represent happy, positive emotions -
    execute as above.

    *Choose a set of colors that represent brooding, sadness, unhappiness - execute as above.

    *Choose a set of colors that represent anger, conflict, horror - execute as above.

    *Choose a set of colors that represent passion, vitality, excitement- execute as above.

    Each of these charts should reflect your personal intuitive response to color combinations, but
    will likely also represent some universal color responses. Try this exercise with fellow designers,
    artists, and friends to see what their emotional color palettes are, and compare. Saving these
    charts can help when trying to elicit a particular response for a piece or project - much like
    creating a color composite can. The beauty of a chart is that each color is isolated for the eye
    to see, and identifies the source of the color for recreation.

    Testing Color Memory


    Refer to the Challenge: Deconstructing a Color video from Chapter 7. In addition to testing
    your color memory for ONE color...try testing your memory of an entire palette!

    *Choose an image that you really like, one that you are very familiar with and study it until you
    are satisfied that you can chart it, like a human color generator.

    *Choose the primary and secondary colors that you think are in the image, then try to create as
    many variations of the colors that you remember in the piece. This can be an organized chart,
    or simply a large sheet of paper with shapes of colors that represent your favorite image, or a
    digital sketch pad—it needn’t be formal, gridded chart.

    *When you think you’ve found as many colors as you can remember - compare to the original,
    then use the palette generator to see if you were in the ballpark of the actual palette.

    Exercising your color memory will help you to recreate colors that you’ve seen, and analyzing
    the difference, if there is any, between your palette and the actual image as well as the palette
    generator, will further hone your skills at remembering and identifying how to create color.

    Course: Foundations of Color with Mary Jane Begin


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