Visual Language - Colour part 2

Following on from last week, we again brought in our coloured objects and performed tasks relative to the lecture we were given.
We focused on the relativity of colour, learning about colour and contrast... what changes our perception of colour when one is put with another.
Once again, we learnt a lot of terms and vocabulary to do with the subject... eg
ADDITIVE COLOUR - when you add more colours... it goes paler (all the way to white) - this applies to light.
SUBTRACTIVE COLOUR - when you add more colours - it goes darker - this applies to paints and inks etc

We looked at different contrasts in colour and their results -

• CONTRAST OF TONE - Formed by the juxtaposition of light and dark values. This could be monochromatic.
• CONTRAST OF HUE - Formed by the juxtaposition of different hues. The greater the distance between hues on a colour wheel, the greater the contrast.
• CONTRAST OF SATURATION - Formed by the juxtaposition of light and dark values and their relative saturations.
• CONTRAST OF TEMPERATURE - Formed of the juxtaposition of hues that can be considered 'warm' or 'cool'.
• COMPLIMENTARY CONTRAST - Formed by juxtaposing complimentary colours from a colour wheel or perceptual opposites.
• SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST - Formed when boundaries between colour potentially vibrate.

After learning about these... we were all made to place our colours into a sort of colour circle around the egde of the tables...

we were then asked to combine our objects with ones of its complimentary colour... in our case purple. We had to pick the 3 objects with the strongest colours and place them together in different ways to see how the properties of these different colours changed as we altered their surroundings...
These are the most succesful ones we came up with as a pair.