This was our version, but made up with the different coloured objects:
After we had arranged our colours in a structured way, we were given a lecture on how colour reacts with other colours. The context in which a colour sits, makes a big difference as to how it appears to us, and how it communicates something. We were asked to take 10 objects of our own colour (blue) and then 10 from its complimentry colour (orange), and then experiment with them and their varying contexts. I chose specific photos of this to analyse:
This is an obvious colour blend/contrast, when the light blue sits on the black bacground, it looks a lot bluer than the darker blue. The dark blue tends to blend more into its dark background. However, the lighter blue background actually helps the dark blue look more blue this time. Not only is the light blue almost perfectly camoflaged, but because it relates too much with it's background, it doesn't stand out as much as it's own colour-blue.
Because this object was a clear orange, the best comparison I can make is the fact that when the orange is on top of white, it looks more orange then when it is on the red background. Red and orange are too close together on the colour wheel for them to work well individually. Whereas, white is a neutral colour, so our eyes can focus mainly on the bright orange, and also it's own complimentry colour (blue) that can seep through slightly onto the paper.
Although, the blue is the same in both photographs, because it is on different backgrounds, it looks slightly different. I placed tracing paper on black card to soften the darkness of it, the blue tape when on this greyish colour seems to blend in more and not look as blue as when on a dark background.
Similarly, this happens again with these objects and their colours. The blue seems to look more blue on a darker background because it contrasts more.
In this photo, all the cutlery are the same colour, however when the orange fork is placed on a pink background it looks a different color to the others. It looks more red, according to the objects background, our eyes percieve the colour of the object differently.
With these mixtures, I can see that the light orange star looks brighter and more orange on the black background then it does on the green. This is because orange/yellow and green are not complimentry so together they don't always show off to their full potential. On the black background, the bright orange can really be expressed, it stands out, and the neutral black enables the human eye to gradually develop it's complimentry colour slightly in the background.
Simply this one is blue on blue and orange on orange, then switched. The colours when on opposite colours, stand out more, look more orange/blue because they don't blend as if they would do if they were the same colour.
The blue seems to look more dull when it is placed on a yellow background. I think it's because the blue is quite a yellowy blue, so they blend nicely but in terms of contrasting the bright red helps the bright blue look bolder.
The orange star is the same colour in both photos, however it appears to look brighter in the top photo, the combination of the very bright post-it note, when put next to the bottom photo seems to generally make the image look lighter. Although, in the bottom photo, the star looks more orange, maybe slightly darker, but definitely brighter. I think this is because of the pink background, makes the orange look more orange.
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