Color wheel and Value scale

I personally enjoyed creating the color wheel and the value scale for this blog post. I had a fun time creating all the colors and painting them all on the piece of paper. That was probably the media i enjoyed working with the most, the paints, because it's fun playing around with the 3 colors to make the many other colors that are possible. I was surprised to find out that red, yellow, and blue are actually in fact not the real primary colors and that it is actually magenta, yellow and cyan that are the true primary colors because that is not what i was taught as a child. I liked how the video explained why those 3 colors mixed together created a brown not a black and i wish that they would explain more in depth on how to get the black so black. Overall I enjoyed this project and creating a color wheel especially.

Photobucket Project

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Module 3: Color Theory and Emotional Effects

1.) Color os the way an object absorbs light and then how it is viewed by human. Color can be used to set a mood or theme for something, or to put emphasis on something. The most common thing color is used for is to make something look better or more interesting.

2.) Something about the aspect of color that interests me is the way that color makes something stand out or look so much better if it is vibrantly colored or even just a touch of color making something look so much more interesting. For example, if I'm looking to buy something, obviously I'm going to be more attracted to an item that has more color rather than something that's black, white or gray.

3.) In the color video, the way June Redfern had such a love/hate relationship with her work made the biggest impact on me. Even though her artwork, to everyone else, looked so amazing to her she always felt that it looked bad and always wanted to fix something on it, until she felt that it met her standards.

4.) The biggest impact on me from the feelings video was how such dark colors in a piece of artwork can show us how dark the artist was feeling inside at the time they created their work of art. Also, that applies to when the artist uses such vibrant colors it shows how happy they were at the time of their artwork being created.

Module 2 Blog Post

1.) In the first video they talk about how aesthetics is the philosophical study of art and the beauty that is presented through art. Picasso, Plato, Aristotle, Hutcheson, and others are all discussed in this video and how their works of art represent beauty, and aesthetics. Later on in the video it talks about modern art forms such as cinema, photography, comics, etc. In the second video Changeux and Ramachandran talk about aesthetics very in depth and how art effects our emotions and our everyday lives.

2.) I believe Aristotle's theory on aesthetics was the most important because he believed that order and symmetry were the "chief forms of beauty" showing how important they are in photography, drawing, and mathematical sciences. Aristotle was alive during the Ancient Philosophy era.

3.) Changeux believes in the scientific genetic envelope for the origins of art. Through the video, he continues on and goes very into depth about the human brain and how we are mentally effected by art. The most interesting thing about Changeux's speech is how he viewed the relation between art and science together as one. Rakmachandran also believes in the relation of the science between art and our brains. I also enjoyed hearing his humor throughout the video. The most interesting part to me was how he showed that a completely distorted Picasso painting was praised by critics even though it looked horrible.

4.) All of the stuff that was talked about in the article was also directly talked about in the 2 videos. The videos just talked more in depth about every point that the article had, making it easier to understand everything being discussed.

5.) I liked how the films were very educational, even though they were definitely on the more boring side. I liked watching the videos better than reading the article because I am more of a visual learner than by only reading an article.