Space Collage, Space Reversal, Color Grid Compositions

The beginning of this project started out with a collage. We had to cut out various shapes from magazines and newspapers and use color to create a sense of space in our picture plane. For the next step, we had to take our collage and create a painting that reversed the space we had established. So if there was a specific object in the foreground (like my design), it had to be painted in such a way so that it receded into the background or became a void space in the picture plane. Next, a grid composition was made up of 12 drawn thumbnails taken from different areas of the collage design. Wherever there was something interesting happening within the design, I squared it off and made it into a thumbnail. With 24 to begin with, we had to take 12 of them and arrange them, 3x4 (3 thumbnails by 4), into something that started to take shape. Then, once some sort of recognizable design surfaced, we did some additive and subtractive touch-ups to accentuate that design. Once a solid design was establish, two color compositions were made from it. The first was painted using an analogous color scheme while the second uses a neutral color scheme. We were also permitted to used white, black and achromatic gray.

Though I used almost all cool colors in my collage, I feel I was able to make the object pop forward from the background by using intense greens and yellows against the dark blues.

For the reversal, I used the bright yellows and greens in the background and used dark blues to make the object in the foreground seem like a void in space. But since the organic shaped object stays inside the picture plane instead of moving off, the object is still trying hard to be perceived as foreground. I think if these branch like shapes were to move off of the page, the composition would have been more successful.











Here are my two final color compositions...

Analogous

Neutral

An Analogous Color Scheme uses a primary or secondary color and it's immediate tertiaries to the left and right. 

My design: red, red/violet and red/orange

A Neutral Color Scheme uses any color with its compliment. 

My design: yellow and violet