victoria yj blog

When working with colour, we tend to think about working with solid opaque areas of colour. Dense applications or sections of colour will work the same way that shapes work in creating spatial relationships. If two solid shapes of colour overlap one another, the top shape will appear to be in front of the other shape. This is the traditional concept of overlapping elements defining spatial relationships. However is the sector where two patches of colour overlap is transparent, then it is nearly impossible to tell which is in front of the other. This creates an arbitrary or ambiguous sense of space.

colour harmonies, colour ways, and colour schemes are all different terms for the same thing. the most closely associated colour way is an analogous colour scheme. these are colours that are directly next to each other in the colour wheel.

Vanishing boundaries, if two hues are very similar to each other in value and saturation, they will have a dramatic visual impact and interaction with each other. 

Mark Rothko purposely created paintings that used the concept of vanishing boundaries as a key element in some of his work.  To accompany my research i will be developing and experimenting with different mediums to recreate my version of colour theories.