{"id":3417,"date":"2011-10-09T11:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T04:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2020-02-05T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T05:39:21","slug":"saturday-school-idea-the-interaction-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2011\/10\/saturday-school-idea-the-interaction-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday School Idea: The Interaction of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"


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My freshman year of college I took Color 101. We used Josef Albers’<\/a> classic Interaction of Color<\/span> as the text. That experience opened my eyes to the difference between what a color is and what it appears to be. Almost forty years later I’m still learning new ways to look at color and loving every minute of it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was standard practice to use ColorAid paper and rubber cement for the assignments. \u00a0 Teachers were tough. No white edges could show. No rubber cement could get on the surface of the paper. Lines had to be cut exactly square and exactly the right length.<\/p>\n

A standard set of 220 ColorAid colors in the 6″x9″ size now costs $110 plus shipping. The full set<\/a> of 314 colors is $158 plus shipping.<\/p>\n

I can’t remember what I paid forty years ago but it was more than I could afford. That meant there was a lot of stress to not mess up.<\/p>\n

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that we try using polymer clay instead of ColorAid to mimic the various exercises in Albers’ book.<\/p>\n

Color interactions are optical effects. The colors do not change but their appearance does.\u00a0Over the next few Saturdays, as I am traveling to teach, I will post some samples of Albers’ exercises done in polymer clay. It will be fun way to see the various ways that colors shift as we go through chapter seven, \u00a0“Playing Games with Color.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You may want to borrow or buy a copy of the student’s edition of Albers’ book. There are two versions of this paperback – be sure to get the latest revised and expanded edition<\/a> with more color plates. \u00a0(Its the one on top.) \u00a0I have to warn you though, even with the extra plates, the text doesn’t have many samples of the exercises. That was always extremely frustrating for me since I am a visual learner!<\/p>\n

I recently purchased a reprint of the original book with 150 color plates. It was \u00a0very expensive – certainly more than any college student could afford – but I am thrilled to finally add it to my library and share some of the plates with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My freshman year of college I took Color 101. We used Josef Albers’ classic Interaction of Color as the text. That experience opened my eyes to the difference between what a color is and what it appears to be. Almost forty years later I’m still learning new ways to look at color and loving every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teaching-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}