Blog 6

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Weekly summary 
We had a woman from Serwin Willims come and speak to us this week. Her presentation was very informative this week. It was mostly about the history of color and color across nations. Here are some things I learned:
Colors throughout American History
  • 19th Century
    • purples, browns, mauve
  • Roaring 20s
    • oranges, blues, black, beige, and white 
  • Great Depression
    • muted hues, white and grey color families
  • 1940s
    • brighter colors- dies became more popular, reds, plums 
  • 50s 
    • turquoise, blue, green, yellow, colorful plastics 
  • 60s 
    • explosion of colors, rainbow, blue, yellows 
  • 70s
    • gold, earth tones, pecan, brown, beige, red, orange 
  • the Millenium 
    • bold colors, red, yellow, light blue
  • 2008+ the housing crisis
    • neutrals became popular, and greys were consistent and easy to decorate around
  • 2020
    • houses became important, wanted zen feelings, clam colors, tans and off whites, greens, earthy colors 
Common colors in different cultures
  • Africa
    • black, brown, tan, white, red, orange 
  • Asia 
    • red, yellow, orange
  • Hispanic
    • green. orange, blue
  • India
    • earthy colors, orange, blue, spice colors, turmeric, yellow
  • Middle Eastern 
    • Green, blue, red, orange, brown
  • Native American 
    • blue, white, red, black, red, yellow, orange
  • Holland
    • red, yellow, pink
  • Irland
    • green
  • London 
    • red
  • France 
    • Purple
  • Greece
    • blue 
  • Germany 
    • red and blue 
What different colors mean around the world
  • Red- fire passion, love, danger, blood 
    • China- good luck happiness 
    • India- good luck 
    • Japan- sacred
    • Africa- death 
  • Pink- love, friendship, passion, fertility, soothing
    • Japan- masculine
    • Blegim- baby boys
    • Eastern- marriage 
    • National- breast cancer 
  • Orange- Energy, balnace, huminity 
    • China and Japan- happiness 
    • India- humility 
    • Netherlands- royalty 
    • England- religious 
  • Yellow- sunlight, caution, controversy, joy
    • Asia- sacred
    • Polonesha- royalty 
    • Rusia- wedding
    • Spain- treason
  • Brown- reliability, approachable, earth, dull 
    • Japan- natural
    • India- Morning 
    • Buddhist and Christian- humility
    • North Americans- good
  • Green- fresh, calm, clean, neutral, peace, life, hope, healing
    • Isreal and China- bad news or infidelity 
  • Blue- calmess. neutrality, honor,, sadness, peace
    • safest global color
  • Purple- majestic, mystery, spirituality, royalty 
    • Eastern- wealth 
    • western- royalty
  • Gold- wealth, majestic 
  • Grey- Neutral, refined, controlled, compromise
  • Black- authority, depression, evil, misery, spohitication
  • White- purity, joy, surrender, hospital



Reading notes 
Chapter 5 sketching interiors
  • Perception of space means how to perceive an object in space 
  • one of the skills is to be able to perceive angels relative to horizontal plans 
  • another skill is seeing proportions relative to each other in the space.
  • different ways to lay out a perspective
    • freehand
    • estimating method 
    • the common method 
  • the common method used is floor plans and elevations to make it accurate. 
  • Different terms to note are: Horizontal line, Vanishing point, picture plan, Ground line, cone of vision, different views
  • one point perspective is when the viewer is parallel the the wall
  •  two-point perspective is when the viewer is in front of the angle 
  • three-point perspective is there are 3 vanishing points. most common in tall buildings
  • proportion is very important to perspective drawings.  
  • many times artists use their pencils to measure things 
Drawing project 



Sketchbook
one-point perspective



Comments

  1. Sami FordFebruary 16, 2024 at 7:37 PM

    I really liked how you focused on what we learned in class, with many different countries associations with colors and the different decades. And your visual wallpaper drawing looks amazing!!

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  2. Katie RozeboomFebruary 18, 2024 at 4:55 PM

    I love how well you summarized what we learned in class. It was a lot of information, and you did a good job of condensing it. And your Visual Wallpaper looks amazing!

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  3. Professor VanderNoordaaFebruary 20, 2024 at 1:20 PM

    Excellent Blog 50/50 Points

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