DIG3525C - Color Theory Digital Abstract Painting
For my Digital Production Studio 1 Class, we were tasked with creating 3 abstract compositions in Photoshop highlighting relative color, optical color, and a choice of our own color scheme.
Optical color artwork usually relies on creating other colors by simply overlaying primary colors on top of one another to create an optical illusion without blending. For example, in this piece I overlayed a lot of yellows and reds to create an orange optical color. This also happens when the reds and blues overlay one another and a slight hue of purple can be seen.
Relative color artwork challenges you to see how the same local color can appear differently depending on what dark/light color you put next to it.
An easy way to understand this is by using a monochromatic scheme. In this piece, I used one local color throughout the piece by just changing the saturation and desaturation levels to get different hues.
For my own personal color scheme, I decided to go through with triadic colors. I used cyan, magenta, and a tan-yellow/green color for this piece. In this piece, I played around a lot with the various blend modes available in Photoshop, especially within the lighten (dodge) options to get those off-white streaks throughout the piece.