How I Use Color

Photography

As a photographer, I am not using color, instead, I am capturing colors. The photo was taken in NYC, I really like this photo, because I can pay close attention to how colors were used in daily life. This is a construction site with many tower cranes. I enjoyed how they are all facing different directions. Plus, the one that is closest to the camera has a different color, blue.

Painting

The painting was done for the 2D design class project. It was an architecture elaboration assignment. The reason why I only used one color on the painting is that the overall painting has a lot of movements. Using too many colors may cause chaos. Also, I have different values of grey to show depth.

Design

In this book jacket design assignment, I chose to use complementary colors. As I think the book jacket should catch readers’ attention immediately, I think the color combination of orange and blue works well together, I only used three colors on the cover which are orange, blue, and white.