Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Changing Sun

When you look out the window. Typically you see the same scene between the hours of 8 and 6. A sun and some clouds. Common, somewhat predictable. But with the simple action of even just looking through a window, often we are able to predict the weather. Grayish equals possibility of rain. Bluish equals a bright sunny typically good weathered day. Okay. Then there is the movies. Here a typical cloud and sun scene can depending on a certain color, help create the mood of the events about to take place. I guess this relates back to my previous blog about the common associations we have with colors.
Linnie, Esther, and I decided for our projects to play with this common scenario of a sun and clouds. We used this as our image and to mix the colors up for our project. Portrayed on a chocolate with frosting for a different play of mediums, we created different colors for each group of images (analogous, monochromatic, and complementary). We found this to be interesting because the common scenes can be easily changed depending on certain color selections. While we found frosting to be a difficult medium to work with, in the end we felt like we had achieved our goal by creating a new mood just depending on the color choice for certain objects.

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