Color Theory and Interaction

Peter Max is known as a Neo Fauvist/ Expressionist painter. He uses color brilliantly in the paintings I researched.

This One here is called two vase of flowers
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I wanted to base my work on Peter Max's style but once I got going, this project took on its own style. I have always enjoyed the shapes and the character of fire hydrants. They kind of look like little people, so i took this photo of a hydrant...

Then i tweaked the picture in photo shop to bring out the shapes made by light and shadows.

It came out wicked pix elated and not as clear as i wanted...

So I printed it out, put it on my light box and outlined the basic shapes of the hydrant. After i got the hydrant right, I added some more shapes of my own to create some form.




Then I colored in some shapes in with a black sharpie.

Then I colored in some shapes with the three primary colors. For some reason this piece would not scan, sorry for the whack camera phone pic. I did my best.



This color scheme is similar yet different in its own way. I took the primary colors and swapped them for less intense colors.



For this one I went for 5 different High contrast colors. Crimson and Navy Blue (Dominant), Light Blue and Green (sub dominant) and Yellow (accent colors)

Value

These are three of the photos i took for the body as a landscape assignment.

You'll have to excuse my lack of photography skills and crappy camera phone.

I do think i did accomplish the whole paradox concept.


Above is the one i like the most. I will use this for the class critique.


For my color project I listened to a Beastie Boys Root Down single that has various remixes of the track (this is based on the "FreeZone mix". The song is an ode to everything hip hop-rapping, graffiti writing, clothing and break dancing.

Because they are from New York, I wanted to base my art on a New York artist from the 80's. So i based the figures on Keith Herring's.




I used green water color and adjusted value and intensity by adding black or white paint and water. Its three upside down break dancers if you couldn't gather that on your own.

Form Space Motion

For this assignment i sought inspiration from photographer Alexey Titarenko. He's quite the pro when it comes to photography and capturing form from one and two point perspective. He has mastered adjusting the camera's shutter speed to capture implied movement.

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I also enjoyed the piece that was also on our class blogg titled, "The Red Tower". Its a simple 1 point perspective painting that uses simple shapes, shadow, and fading color to create implied space.

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Here's what i came up with. I tried to take something from each of the above examples.

I'm not much of a photographer but i did the best i could. I wanted to use 1 point perspective, implied space with the staircase, and capture a moving car. After several tries i finally caught a white minivan zooming by.