Design Course
Colour and Form - II
The Fundamentals of Colour
by
Colour Interaction
Exercise - 4:
Colour Interaction:
Duration:
1/2 day, Individual exercise
Objective:
An exciting exercise, it simultaneously exposes the student to three most important phenomena of Optical mixture, Colour interaction and Bezold effect. It also fine tunes the student’s composition making capabilities.
Mode:
• Make a composition using colored paper as background and 2 differently coloured squares or lines.
• Make the same composition as above by replacing 1 of the 2 used colours in the first composition with a different hue.
Or
• By changing the colour of the background paper.
Materials:
Glue, coloured paper, poster paints, brushes.
Discussion:
Impressionism, Optical Mixture, Bezold Effect, Colour interaction, Simultaneous contrast, after image.
