Category: Color Assignments

Siqi Wang

Part 1:
I started the assignment by selecting sets of complementary colors. I tested out red-green, and yellow-purple. I don’t really have the color-aid paper for any blue ones, so I failed to test orange-blue. I finally went with yellow-purple, since I think they’re more obviously showing the transitioning between the same muddy yellow into a more lighter/cold over the purple background, and more darker/warm over the yellow background.

Part 2:
It’s very challenging since I gave myself the constraint by only using one random newspaper. Therefore, there’s not so much ideal “black” or “white”. Eventually, I reached to this certain degree of gradient, but I think it will work better if I intentionally look for the colors in different newspaper.

xiaojie li

This assignment challenged to think about the weight of black and white. I feel if there are some intensive black color, it feels really black even it’s just dot. Because the color of blank part of newspaper is close to the grey background, it’s little bit hard to make the middle part the same as grey background and then get whiter. I think that’s one constraint in doing this exercise exactly following the instruction.