Gwendolyn Lane
Professor Brew
EXTRA CREDIT
May 10, 2007
It appears that the color relationship of the titles in the "Assignments" lists in Blackboard are representative of color properties relating to the "subtractive" process of how color behaves when artists work with mixing pigments, or paints. This process occurs "when pigments of different hues, [or name of the color according to the category on the color wheel such as a pure primary color such as, red, green, or blue] are mixed on a gray value scale where the resulting color values [shades of light and dark existing in seamless continuum from white (the highest value) to black (the darkest value) (Getlein p. 92)] are darker and duller, because together they absorb even more colors from the spectrum. Thus, when a hue is lighter than normal value, it is called a tint; and, when a color is darker than its normal value, it is called a shade. For example, a red and green pigment will mix to produce a grayish brown or a brownish gray pigment." (96)
Thus, it appears that the color, or pigment, for the Intro week is brown or a mixture of red and green; week two seems to be a mixture of blue and yellow hues producing the color light green color; week three seems to be a mixture of red and blue hues producing the shade, or darker value, maroon; week four seems to be a mixture of red and yellow hues to produce the color orange. However, weeks five and six seem to be a lighter value, or hue of the primary color blue, producing the color light blue; week seven seems to be a mixture of red and blue pigments producing the color purple; weeks eight and nine seem to be a yellow-orange shade of lighter value, or hue, and appears to be the hue brown. It seems that week ten is black, a non-color, the darkest value; week eleven is the same color as week three, maroon; weeks twelve and thirteenth are the same as Intro week one, brown; week fourteenth is the same as week ten, black; and finally, weeks fifteenth and sixteenth are the same color as weeks eight and nine, a light value of yellow-orange shade of the hue brown.
WORK CITED
Getlein, Mark. Living With Art. 8th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill 2008.
