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This is a straight up homework assignment from my class, Designing by Color and Light by Nathan Fowkes, which you can find on Schoolism.com (I'm taking the self-taught version). I did the value study on the top left, first, then did five versions in different colors. At first I tried just painting over the Study, but I'm not savvy enough yet to add color without using value, so I did flat color layers and then different blending types, and then did touch ups over those.The emotions are supposed to be (from top to bottom, left to right, excluding the value study) Brisk, Warm and Lush, Winding Up (not quite at rest but getting there), Deterimined and Otherworldy.
My favorites are the first and the last (which are really the last two color studies that I finished)
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The initial value study was rather necessary for a few of its following hue variants to entirely make sense of the chosen image. However, as an experiment in projecting emotion through choice of color palette, I'd judge this six-image panel to be a rousing success.
The study image begins by presenting a relatively simple, primeval forest scene with a great deal of rhythm. For this sort of exercise, that's a perfect sort of image to choose, because the colors and contrasts will determine whether the rhythm energizes or lulls the viewer. The image also draws the viewer's eye emphatically toward the small house structure. This makes it easy to see if the colored images go at all wrong, because wrongness will draw the eye away from the house.
Brown Image-- I see it as "dreamy" because of several details. The rhythmic trees in the background are faded away with gentle, minimized contrast, lulling the viewer. The artist added some horizontal rhythm with washes of fog along the bottom. The smoke curling up from the house exhibits a lazy sway. Altogether, the effect is of an early morning, where the bustle of the day has not yet left the confines of the house.
Green Image-- This one is highly vibrant, and exudes an aire of anticipation. Looking at the mid-ground tree, the anticipation is for something good, reinforced by the dimensional appearance of the trunk. Looking at the high color in the background, the anticipation is for something potentially bad (at least, for a viewer who grew up reading "Swamp Thing" and watching TMNT). However, since the image still draws the eye to the house more than anything, a quick glance only generates a faceless anticipation.
Purple Image-- Because of the high tones shifting through a darkening gradient toward the top of this piece, it seems to loom larger than the others. It ends up projecting a timeless feel, as in a clerestory-windowed cathedral at night. I can see it inducing a feeling of dominion or reverence. However, I'm not fond of the handling on the trunk oh the mid-ground tree, which ends up looking flat and distracting from the rest of the scene. Perhaps it was meant to mimic the background rhythm. If so, please keep trying, it was just this example that did' work.
Red Image-- The high contrast between the background trees and background gaps makes this image disturbingly menacing. To me, at least. However, I have a red-green colorblind friend who would see this image as the sleepier version of the one above it, with moonlight pouring I around dark trees.
"Negative" Image-- "Otherworldly" for certain. I especially enjoy the detail evident in the deep background of this one. Kudos!
As for overall arrangement, I see what you were doing in terms of complimentary colors and handling. For greater overall impact, I would recommend swapping the purple and red panels, just to get rid of the queasy interaction of the purple and brown panels.
Excellent work on this. It is a pleasure to the eye and mind.
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Cageyjay, thanks for the critique. I've looked at the purple image again and you're right, the working of the tree trunk is off. I'll see what I can do about that.
Also, I never really gave much thought to the overall arrangement--but I see your point. The not-very-saturated brown and the super-saturated purple do really fight against each other.
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It was a pleasure. Thank you for taking the points of criticism so graciously and responding with such equanimity. Good luck with your future pieces governed by color and saturation, and I hope you will return to and reuse this image-- you've rendered me quite fond of that little house, wondering who lives there and what neighbors might be up the tree next door.
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