The Two-Color Palette Study

This was the last of my color theory studies. These two colors were selected to mingle with each other in hopes of creating a wide range of tones. The top image shows the colors chosen and the palette of tones. The bottom image is the composition composed of the two-color palette.

Capstone Painting goes Gallery!

Aye Eye Captain!

Here are some of my fiddlings from Color Theory class today. I really enjoy combining gouache, pen, and marker to try out some different color relationships. These little experiments may be used as college materials for my final piece or who knows, maybe just fun for now.

Color Theory: Color Anomaly and Bridge Tones

In this exercise, I created a design using monochromic or analogous schemes for the palette. From there, I made 2 more almost identical designs. In one, I added the bright fuschia to create an anomaly with this blue/green atmosphere. I turn to the third design to "solve" this anomaly. By changing some of the original spaces into more red/purple tones, the anomaly is more cohesive with its surroundings.

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Color Theory: Palette Studies

Here are two color theory assignments. The first was a triadic palette, where we were to combine red, yellow, and blue to make a dark tone. The dark tone was then mixed with white and used as the background of the design and palette. To create this palette, I mixed mid, dark, and light tones, six hues for each. Including the original white, red, yellow and blue this palette consists of 22 colors. From this palette, I made this busy design.

Triadic Palette Design

The second was an altered palette, where 4 colors are individually mixed with the same darker tone. From this palette came the design below included all of the colors mixed.

Altered Palette Design

Color Theory: Color Inventory

One of our assignments in color theory consisted of making a color inventory by pulling colors from a source. My source was one of the infamous MADBALLS stickers. Specifically, Swine Sucker.

So from this, I created a color inventory and a small corresponding painting. The inventory shows the proportions of color. The painting takes these proportions and makes something of them.

Proportional Color Inventory

Corresponding Painting

MADBALLS

Does anyone remember Madballs? They were these balls that came out in the late 80s/early 90s, and they totally embodied the gross out/slime kid factor of the time. So of course I had one. These found their way back into my mind when I found Madballs stickers at the dollar store. One of the stickers was this toothy, oozing robot creature, and, in needing a break from assigned art projects, I decided to draw it and throw some gouache on top.
With names like, Slobulus, Repvile, and Swine Sucker, how could you not want one? They even managed to make an animated series out of them. I suppose its freaky fun for everyone.