This week we were looking at colour theory, and more specifically the dimensions of colour. We each brought in 10 objects of a certain colour, which we then laid out, and in groups arranged however we felt best. After some deliberation, we found that rather than deciding on a strict formula i.e. dark to light, or bright to pale, that in fact it was more simple to hold each item up against another in order to lay them out in some kind of order. I think that this worked well as a way of categorizing the colours. At first we laid out the items in a long line along the desks, in an order which sort of resembled red/orange graduating to more yellow/orange. After this we decided that it might look more effective if we compressed the line onto just one desk, allowing the colours to blend more subtly.
Some of the other groups work in the background, all laid out in a very similar way
Once we grouped the colours together more closely; also the addition of my hand...
After this excersise, we selected 10 of the objects that were most extreme in colour, and located up each of their Pantone colour codes as well as we could. This was an interesting excersise, as we found that many elements effected your judgement whilst trying to colour match, for example the texture and finish of the object, as well as the lighting. This illustrated the concept that colour really is relative, and it only takes a minor alteration to change the tone, tint, or shade of a colour. I think that finding the Pantone for each of these objects will allow us to identify them on the colour spectrum and relate this to the order that we arranged the objects initially.
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