Albers Project

So I didn't really know what I wanted out of this project and I still really don't because I've never been one with a good eye for colors nor have I ever been one who knew too much about theory. I'm not great with design that's solely made of polygons and solid pieces of color. That being said, everything throughout this project is pretty simple.

For Cycle 1, the “How Much, Too Much” color experiment, I mashed together the most opposite colors I could think of, the ones that would clash the most and be the most opposite as I could possibly get them to be. So I ended up with Orange and Blue, colors which were opposite on the color wheel. I then used a rich blue that was as much of a deep, cool blue I could use without losing saturation and then used the exact opposite for the other color. The Orange being a pale, almost peach, warm color thinking it would clash nicely.

When it came to Cycle 2, I did something extremely simple. With the idea that the color square in the middle was meant to be a kind of “transparency” and combination of the two larger squares of color, I couldn’t resist the rather elementary color palette of primary and secondary colors.

I had absolutely zero idea what to do for my Free Exercise, Cycle 3, which was kind of an issue, but I figured I would figure out colors first at the very least. I used an online color picker which would give the different palettes of colors which were related to the color you chose in some way. I did know I wanted my Free Exercise to be more complicated than the other two projects so I ended up using analogous colors. Analogous colours are groups of colours that are next to each other on the colour wheel, plus an extra color called a tertiary, so I ended up with a pretty, deep color scheme of blues and purples.

-Katie Wilson