Homework due 2/15/11

The homework for next week is:

1. Color and Culture: Choose an object. Create a profile for the object based on its physical, symbolic and cultural characteristics. Ask yourself what color it is, why its that color and how it helps to contextualize the object. Look at the pigments involved (review the pigment sheets that was attached in the email and then research what you want to expose about the objects.
Consider and include:

A. Cultural "birth" of the colors on this object and where the object, as well as the pigments use in it's creation, have traveled since it was made. You will begin with research, but may use your imagination if you can't find research to back you up.

B. Consider why is this object these colors? They may be applied or inherent to the object. Were they practical, symbolic, emotional, a replication of reality or a combination of these? And so why? Consider the subtleties- remember the Munsell chart we showed- is the color Blue? What kind of Blue?:
1st HUE: Blue green or blue violet or just a pure blue (compare it to something)
2nd VALUE: how light or dark, find a value scale and number it from 1-10
3rd CHROMA- is it very bright like the Spectrum (IE: Red), slightly off of the spectrum (Non-spectral- IE Rust), is it a Tone (mixed with gray) or just pure gray, brown or some other Neutral.

I know these may be difficult to differentiate, but think about it as we will be differentiating a bit more next week in class and you will have more PERCEPTUAL experience to combine with your knowledge. (You can also attend the Monday night workshop to learn more!)

Compile all this information in a visual document (data sheet, poster, brochure, outline, etc.) so it can be easily presented in class next week.

2. Skin Color: Describe your skin color and how you think your skin color relates to all the other skin colors in the world. Think about what paint colors you would mix to make the color of your skin. (we will experiment with mixing paint in class next week)

3. Bring what you have from this list: your paint, brushes a container for water, plastic plate to act as a palette and rags to class next week. (If you don't have paint you can find someone in class to team up with or use some of ours.) Some of you asked if you needed the specific paint- Guerra, No, but it does make studying color much easier on you.