OUGD404 - Studio Brief 1 Colour Theory

In today's session we played around with colour. We were all asked to bring in 5 objects of a specific colour, mine was red. Our first task was to order the objects from light to dark:

This was quite difficult, as we had some orange items and some pink, so it was hard to tell which ones were lighter or darker. Comparing each object close up to another one was the easiest way to tell. 

This was quite tricky as it's hard to tell with reds. You have to compare it to something yellow or blue, to see what its base is. After that, we had to arrange our dark and light reds in a circle, and we chose to have the darkest in the middle, gradually getting lighter: 

Then, we had to take one item from our circle, swap with another colour and place our item where it most fits within their circle. We went to yellow, and placed our items:

I don't agree with the placement of the light blue decoration in the middle, I think it should be on the outside, as it is a lighter blue and the light red is on the outside.  After this, we had to arrange all of our coloured items together in a line:

This session was fun and I learned a lot about colour. It's interesting to see how colour changes when it's next to something different or on a slightly altered background, for example, the paper we used for a background had a slight yellow tinge, but comparing the colours on snow white paper gave a different result all together. I also have a better understanding of reds and how they are blue and yellow based, and how that translates to it being cool or warm.