Reflection #5

Before I read this article and watched the film I felt pretty much the same way about color as I do after reading and watching the article. It didn’t tell me a whole lot of what I didn’t already know. Which is awesome; considering I learned most of what I know from my art classes! I learned some new terms for what I’ve already done before in my work but it wasn’t intentional I suppose you could say. It was just something that looked pleasing to me. Oooh maybe I have an eye for color! Who knew. I’m not sure how to explain how I use color in my own work. I mess with it a lot. I use varying shades and tints to get a good color combination. Quite often in my work I try to make the piece soft and easy and calming on the eyes, even when its reds I’m using. But I do like to have pieces that are jarring to the senses every once in awhile I can be mean like that. Pieces that aren’t at all what the viewer is expecting—it doesn’t look realistic at all but at the same time it does. I’m making them sound a lot more expressive than they actually are in my opinion. I don’t understand the author of the article’s view on wasted paints and getting the message across, exactly. If you’re painting or drawing for a specific person I understand you would want to get a nice reaction from them. I think art should be more about pleasing yourself, but I think that opinion is more only mine just because I’m not going to try to make a living off of art in the future. My color theory has changed in the past four years by becoming more complex. I (usually) know how to mix colors better and what tones to get in order to offset the other colors well. With my current project I sort of want to chuck it across the room because of the colors but Hey, it’s a learning piece for me. A new genre. Sometimes I think I would’ve rathered stayed ignorant of color theory and all its implications just because it gets so complicated in my head sometimes. But I’ve liked learning how colors blend and what they blend with to get good colors besides the basic “red plus yellow equals orange.”