{"id":10479,"date":"2015-08-31T12:51:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/?p=10479"},"modified":"2015-08-31T14:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T21:04:06","slug":"colour-journal-exercise-from-exploring-color-by-nita-leland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/colour-journal-exercise-from-exploring-color-by-nita-leland\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour Journal – Exercise from Exploring Color by Nita Leland"},"content":{"rendered":"

This colour journal is a\u00a0recommended\u00a0exercise from the book Exploring Color<\/em> by Nita Leland.<\/p>\n

The purpose of this exercise is to get a sense of what colours attract you\u00a0and to investigate colours that resonate with you.
\nThis information will be useful as you explore colour theory.<\/p>\n

Questions<\/strong>
\nWhat colours resonate with you?<\/em>
\n What do you like about their usage of colour?\u00a0Is it their brilliant colours or strong values?<\/em>
\n Can you distinguist between value painters and colorists?<\/em>
\n Do I like unusual color?<\/em>
\n Do you prefer subtlety or boldness.<\/em><\/p>\n

Answers
\n<\/em><\/strong>What colours resonate with you?<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are a couple of paintings by two of my favourite artists: Edgar Degas and Alphonse Mucha. The last example is by a talented artist from Art Station (who’s\u00a0name escapes me — sorry!).<\/p>\n

I sifted through dozens of photos before settling on these two paintings.
\nFirst off, I can’t say that I’ll always be\u00a0drawn to these colour combinations. My preferences for certain styles is constantly evolving. For now, muted, borderline ‘haunting’ colour combinations (for lack of a better description) resonate with me the most:<\/p>\n

\"1\" \"Alfons_Mucha_-_1896_-_Summer\"<\/p>\n

\"tumblr_mekgscUgfq1qagb02o1_1280\"\"girl\" What do you like about their usage of colour? Is it their brilliant colours or strong values?<\/em><\/p>\n

I like the first painting the most. In particular, I like the contrast between the dimly-lit, muted room with the more vibrant, luminescent dancers.<\/p>\n

I may be getting my preferences for lighting mixed up\u00a0with my preferences\u00a0for colour here. Either way, I this Degas did a masterful job in that first painting.<\/p>\n

I like the overall mood evoked by the following\u00a0two\u00a0examples. The subtle, nearly-monochromatic colours exude a peaceful, yet mysterious, complex vibe.<\/p>\n

With respect with the gorgeous bottom painting –\u00a0the fairly monochromatic colours really resonate with me. I was also struck by the contrast in shadow and light cast by the window onto her face and decolettage , but this is probably not as related to colour as it is related to composition and light.<\/p>\n

Can you distinguist between value painters and colorists?
\n<\/em>I think so.<\/p>\n

Do I like unusual color?
\n<\/em>Hmm. If someone were to catch me off guard with this question, I’d probably say ‘yes’. However, the paintings I gravitate towards are a more muted and relatively ‘unadventurous’ as far as colour goes.<\/p>\n

Do you prefer subtlety or boldness.
\n<\/em>Subtlety for sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This colour journal is a\u00a0recommended\u00a0exercise from the book Exploring Color by Nita Leland. The purpose of this exercise is to get a sense of what colours attract you\u00a0and to investigate colours that resonate with you. This information will be useful as you explore colour theory. Questions What colours resonate with you? What do you like...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1422,1304],"tags":[1482,1426,1425,1480,1481],"class_list":["post-10479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colour","category-art-studies","tag-color-exercise","tag-color-theory","tag-colour-theory","tag-exploring-colour","tag-nita-leland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1.jpg?fit=625%2C436","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qg3D-2J1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}