ANSWERS: Project No. 5 – Simultaneous Contrast of Hue

1) READING
- excerpts from Interaction of Color, Joseph Albers

2) SUPPLIES
- Pure color cut outs from magazines, pad paper, contact cement, scissors

3) ASSIGNMENT
.1 Choose two color samples as “fields” 2” wide x 3-1/4” tall. Samples should be near the same value as possible. Choose a “figure” color and place smaller rectangular pieces ½”w x ¾”t in the middle of the “field” samples. The object of this assignment is to make the same “figure” pieces appear to be as different as possible.

.2 Choose two color samples as “fields” 2” w x 3-1/4”t. Samples should be as near the same value as possible. Choose two color samples as “figures” and place smaller rectangular pieces of them (1/2” x ¾”) in the middle of the “field” samples. The object of this assignment is to make the “figure” pieces appear to be the same, beginning with as different figure samples as possible. Also, place additional samples of the “figure” pieces in the bottom right corner of the page for comparison.

Notes: in both assignments the “field” should be the same value in order to eliminate the effects of simultaneous contrast of value.

Both exercises should be glued, with contact cement not Elmer’s, to an 11” x 11” piece of drawing pad paper and the fields should be centered with 1” spacing in between.

4) SCHEDULE
Week Five
09.20.10: Introduce Color Vocabulary, Color Wheel, Albers readings, review color database, Assign Project 5.1 and 5.2, My Favorite Painting
09.22.09: Prelim. pin up of Proj. 5.1 and 5.2, Assign Project 5.3
09.24.09: Project 5.3 Transparency prelim pin-up and discussion, Project 5.1 and 5.2 Final due beginning of class, Assign Project 5.4 Extension

Week Six
09.27.09: Project 5.4 Extension prelim pin-up and discussion, Final Project 5.3 due at the beginning of class
09.29.10: College Closed till 5pm
10.01.10: Final Review for COLOR in the Jury Room