Visual Language 6

In this visual language session we were exploring the relationship between different colours next to or on top of each other and the effect that it has on the colour. We took our coloured objects and started the experimenting by placing them against their complimentary coolour. My coloured objects were red so I was placing them on or around different shades of green and then moving on to seeing how other colours affect the ambience of the colour.

Here I have put some of the photos that I took which I think show interesting examples of how colour is relative and changes depending on it's environment. I have had a go at writing some descriptions and explanations of what is happening in the images.



These two pens are very similar colours, but the green pen on the red background looks almost black. It does stick out of the page very clearly because it is the complimntary colour of the background. The green pen on the green background it much beter recognisable as green but kind of falls back into the backrgound a bit more because the greens are still very close in the spectrum of colour. The other pen stands out more because red and green are as far away as possible in the spectrum.

This image works in a very similar way as the one above but much more obviously. The red on red is almost invisible because of the similarity in colour, but the red on the green pops out really clearly. It is important to realise that complimentary colours usually do not look nice next to each. Complimentary doesn't mean that they compliment each other visually but that they compliment the best aspects of the each other, making them most bold and vibrant.

This image shows how the green colour can change depending on the colour it sits on. On top of the yellow background the green colour takes on a really yellow tint. Green is actually quite close to yellow in the colour wheel so this is expected, but the same green becomes a much more natural grass or leafy colour when over the green background.

This image shows how the word 'green' can be a colour that has a lot of different looks and connotations. For example, the bright green pen in the middle has a completely different feel compared to the dark green glasses case on the right.

This image shows how the red letter stands out against the black and completely falls away against the orange. Orange and red are very similar colours. In fact the red actuallty turns into a deep orange when put on top of the orange. White is the extreme end of the colour spectrum and it makes most colours stand out really well. Similarly, black is the extreme asbsence of light and also make most colours stand out well as you can see with the red letter above.