Course work: Project 5, Stage 3. Laid out all my Assignment One work for review…see photo p. 53. (Tiles in floor are 30.5 cm.)
Colors are reasonably flat; some transparent colors are less than perfect in uniformity. There is some minor imprecision in paint application: this is due in part to the multiple applications required, and to a lesser extent to occasional difficulty with a mild senile tremor. My color mixing has improved, and my handling of acrylic paint has improved a little. I anticipate some continuing experimentation with color-mixing, primarily in my sketchbook.
At this point, I think that I have completed the Assignment One work. I am sure that if I repeated it from the start, I could improve it somewhat.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Johannes Itten The Elements of Color
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1961
Pp. 72-95
(In my opinion, The Elements of Color is overrated. The language is frequently ponderous, and the translation is suboptimal. There is useful information, although it is often hard to locate or comprehend in the barely-penetrable jungle of tedious Teutonic verbosity. The irrelevant mysticism (“…the essential factor is the ‘aura’ of the person.”) and a significant number of comments that are not only absurd, but which seem tainted with Nazism (“Light blond types with blue eyes and pink skin incline toward very pure colors… A very different type is represented by people with black hair, dark skin, and dark eyes, for whom black plays an important part in the harmony.”) distract the reader and detract from the value of the book. The association of colors with specific geometric shapes is just silly, and one can easily find any number of other equally absurd statements. Some figures are presented out of logical order…the first cited in the text is No. 58. While The Elements of Color may have some historical interest, it would seem to have limited value to the contemporary student, who can easily find more readable and better illustrated color theory texts which lack the objectionable features of this volume.)
Time today: 58 minutes
Total time for Assignment One: 89 hours 13 minutes
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