Emily Tobias

At the beginning of the class I named this blog: Adventures in Color Theory, and I really believe that the phrase held true. This, by far was my most challenging, yet at the same time most fun and rewarding class of the semester. I have never really painted before, now I am looking into buying some more paint! Patterns as a concept have always fascinated me but now I am obsessed with creating my own in endless color combinations. Thanks to the color project, I am now seeing violet and its cousins everywhere, and all of my friends and family get a good laugh in when I use violet with out even realizing it. Overall, I have learned how to effectively use color, and the endless ways in which one can do so. I was really sad to see this class end but I think as a good personal exercise I am going to try to keep the blog going as on outlet to showcase cool designs, patterns and color that I encounter on and off the web!

For the final assignment of the class we could pick any topic and explore it. Over the semester I have been totally fascinated by patterns… here is what I came up with:

First, I made some on the computer:

Next I printed some patterns on fabric:

Lastly I did some printmaking:

here is my pointillism banana

so this whole survey thing is still kind of a mystery, but I have chosen the three spreads that I will mount on half of my 2nd board… (visual communications and color are going to share!)

Today we presented the final versions of out color book.  I took the comments from the last critique very seriously and I did a complete overhaul of the book. Here is a picture of the new first spread! I will post it to issu soon!