Cabinet Article

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/7/colors7.php

Safety Orange - the color that commands your attention and ignites your imagination. Bright and stunning, this orange is the color of everything from constructing signs the vibrant neon colors of the eighties. Safety Orange has over the years become the color of the new millennium advancing in rank as the chosen color of technology and dominance and all the way to the governance of our capitalist state. Invoking the soul and providing the lust and desire of our youth orange has become the hue of everything that is fresh and new in our lives today. 

Second Work

For our second work in the series of four we were asked to draw inspiration from a fellow classmate. I was assigned to work of of Alex who had made an orange collage of cut out triangles with a distinct circular object in the bottom right. The substrate was to be covered using only acrylic paint with the sole requirement be that we utilized some set of color harmonies. For my piece I used both the analogous orange color harmony and the complimentary blue-orange harmony. The piece drew fairly literally from alex's original piece with the exception that I added a second, more subtle circle to the composition. It all turned out very well and up to my expectations. Hope you like it.

First Work

The first in a series of four, the following is my photgraph collage inspired / based on the color yellow-orange. I drew connections to the common use of this color in road markings and public utilities. Check it out.