Light and Colour

Visit the FIGURING LIGHT, Colour and The Intangible Exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside. Choose a piece of work and write 200 words about the artist use of colour and light.


Rebecca Partridge
Evolver
oil on canvas, 155x185cm, 2008

Today I went to the Colour and The Intangible Exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery. I didn’t manage to take any photographs of my own because they wouldn’t let me, but I managed to find a picture of my favourite piece on the internet to put in my blog.
What first attracted my attention to this piece was the use bright colour, it draws you towards the painting. There is good use of complimentary colours and geometric shapes next to each other to create a white space in the centre.
The colours and shapes used in this piece also create a lot of energy. It seems almost as if it is exploding towards the viewer. The way the artist uses different tints of the colours used in the background gives the piece depth, which emphasises the explosion effect.


Take two photographs based on a theme of your choice. Using Photoshop change and replace the colours to express complementary pairs of colours. Explain your choice of colours.





In both of these photographs i have edited the colours in the sky in order to enhance it. I have changed the colours in the clouds to oranges in order to make them stand out more against the blue sky. This is because orange and blue are a pair or complementary colours, which means they make each other stand out when place next, or near, to each other.