The Theory of Colourtivity

After working with black and white for what has seemed to be an eternity, it's safe to say that Monday just gone was a full on eye burner. This was largely down to the fact that everyone within the group had to bring in 10 collected objects that were of the colour assigned to them at the beginning of term; mine being blue. Joy. At least it wasn't yellow.

Once we had established who had what, where, when and why etc we separated into our respective groups and began focusing upon the categorization of our colour regarding various sub-categories such as hue, saturation, lightness and darkness.




As you can see it was actually pretty interesting visually once everything was arranged together within one collective space. (It was also a little less harsh on the eyes than the mother of all PowerPoint presentations that Fred unleashed upon us first thing that morning and later on that afternoon!)

After this we subsequently took it upon ourselves to arrange our objects in what was officially dubbed as The Line of Destiny; which in my personal opinion made it a lot easier and a lot clearer to order our objects via the sub-categorizations. In fact, it was so good that the Purples (Violets) decided to join onto us to form an active three dimensional gradient.



From here things then seemed to get a little out of control. Before I even had time to grab a trademark coffee the entire spectrum of colours had joined onto the trail and formed a complete colour wheel that went in one end of the studio, out the other side and all around the landing where we had initially set up our Blue objects. It actually looked amazing to be fair, so as you do; I documented it and made this nifty little video that I am really pleased about. (It's the first one I've ever done by the way).

To finish off the day we concluded with an exercise that focused more specifically on how colours impact with each other when juxtaposed together. This consisted of arranging compositions with sets of complimentary coloured objects (for me it was my blue ones with some of the oranges provided by Chris, Mitch and Westy) and documenting them via photographic methods. After about an hour or so of messing about I think I had something close to 100 photos of various results; some of which are vibrant to say the least! Anyway, as per; here are some of the best ones. See what happens when you stare long enough at where one colour meets another; it's nuts!





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