Rachael Miller

IMAG 101 2017

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Final Project

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Part B Masters Painting 

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Unit 1 Color Project

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Workbook 8

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Workbook 7

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Ionic Architechure

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Color Schemes

Complimentary

Deep Oranges and Light Blues are complimentary.

Split Complementary

Yellow/Orange close to Green/Blue and Compliments Light Red/Purple

(https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ropt/hd_ropt.htm)

Triadic

Deep Red, Deep Yellow, Deep Blue. All colors are desaturated.

Analogous

Deep Mauve, Deep Red, Light Red/Orange

(https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ropt/hd_ropt.htm)

Tetrad (Rectangle)

Light Orange, Deep Red, Light Green, Light Blue

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Ionic Hall Philadelphia Masonic Temple

The Ionic Hall of the Philadelphia Masonic Temple was funded by the Breed family in 2008 in has a range of Greek style architecture including ionic style columns and the greek meander as a border outside of the room.

The room’s colors include two different color palettes one specific to the walls one specific to the carpet.

These two sets of color were constructed from my own observations while the next two were created through an equation in color.adobe.com .

The European paintings from 1400-1900 that I selected to be analyzed with the Ionic Hall and have similar color palettes are In the Salon by Napoleone Conccetti 

The second painting that I chose to be analyzed with is Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. 

The computer generate color palettes of each painting are as follows

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Carpet of Ionic Room Masonic Temple

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Masonic Temple Ionic Room

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Artist Statement

My project is commentary on the harmful effects of plastic and industrialization on environment. My piece is composed entirely out of plastic products mainly reused plastic spoons. The subject of my piece is a skull with a three rose crown. The work is tasked with the purpose of ironically portraying a mother of earth type figure withering and dying, while being made of plastic. The piece comments on the environment in similar ways as the Dr. Seuss Lorax movie, aspects of nature being made of plastic and faking the realistic “natural” nature. I drew inspiration from nature and succulents as well as from The Lorax movie. My incorporation of gradient is shown in the acrylic painting on the plastic, it is shown on the body of the skull graduating from a deep green so a liter warmer green, as well as in the petals of the three flowers. The gradient is significant in drawing the viewer's eye to the top of the work in the less worked more prominent forms of the plastic spoons. This will lead viewers to connect the irony of the flowers being made of plastic and the green skulls representing nature through color and the withering suffering state of nature. My creative use of an everyday object is the spoons and melting spoons down to thin sheets we well and slumping spoons to create a skull like form.

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Color Wheel and Value Scales

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Value and Color Contrast

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Unit 1 Final Project Progression

This is a material test of black plastic spoons warped into a rose, gold detailing was added after plastic cooled using acrylic paints.

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Unit 1 Project Proposal

My interpretation of the best way to successfully complete this assignment is to transform colored everyday objects into a completely different conceptual subject matter. 

My proposal for this project is to melt and warp commonly used everyday pieces of colored plastic into a sculpture of a soon to be developed subject. The plastic used  will be place in a colored gradient and will include darker shades and lighter values of the colored used in the gradients.