Design Course
Colour and Form - I
The Fundamentals of Colour
by
Colour Interaction
Exercise - 4:
Colour Interaction:
Duration:
1 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 strips.
• Make the same composition as above by replacing 1 of the 2 used colours in the first compostion with a different hued strip.
Or
• By changing the colour of the background paper.
Materials:
Satin ribbons or coloured paper strips, glue, coloured paper.
Discussion in the Class:
Impressionism, Optical Mixture, Bezold Effect.
Observation:
Observing the discussion in the class it was very evident that the exercise provided an excellent opportunity of collective learning as the work of each student demonstrated atleast two of the three above mentioned phenomena.
As the coloured paper available in the market is in limited shades the alternative to the pre painted coloured paper provided by the studio was that the student could use poster colours and paint the background on their own. The coloured background paper provided by the NID-Asian Paints Colour Research Studio reduced the time taken doing the exercise and eliminated the errors made due to skill in painting.
