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)