Collage Series
Design/Illustration Tech 2 (d/i 2) continued with concepts explored in d/i 1, but added elements such as color and more abstract thinking behind projects. The first few weeks were spent going over color theory and making water color swatches to get us warmed up for what was ahead in the class. Once that was out of the way, we made a series of collages out of scraps of pretty much whatever kind of material we wanted as long as they were abstract compositions combining different kinds of color contrasts. The compositions had to be on 6 x 6 pieces of bristol and display all the design elements that have been discussed up to this point such as point, line, and plane, contrast, harmony, and balance.
I ended up going through some old magazines that I had lying around looking for pieces of color that met the problem requirements. In the first set we were to find chromatic colors that were of the same value key (i.e. low, mid, high) for one collage, and then mix different values for the next. I chose to go with a mid key value range for my common value range (because I found the most of it in my magazines). Here are the results:
For the next set we had mix chromatic and muted colors of varying intensities:
The final set mixed chromatic, muted, and fully saturated colors:
