COLOURRR

Seeing as I've run out of things to say....

Ahh there's one place in London that is saturated LOL

M and Ms world! =D
They have a wall of different colored chocolate coated candies =D

I swear they have almost every color humans are allowed to eat

I think that's paint.... but you get the point. Usually sweets are all sorts of attractive colors, why? because its appealing to the eye.
Children want to eat it!
I want to eat it!

Cars!

Im sorry but i just cant get over how grey our world is! Seriously, what on earth is going on:

What is it with people and their cars which don't stand out? Has society really depressed everyone that much? Is it too showy or big headed (probably, you'll definitely get mugged lol)

Whatever happened to overly saturated cars like: 

like this gorgeous lambo XD

I mean there's nothing wrong with red cars, yes that are many, but not enough! 

WE NEED MORE 

COLOR IN....

 ....HATFEILD

Films with awesome colour grading

A film i adore is Hero. Chinese martial arts film. I think it has some of the most extreme colourgrading changes int all cinema, but the amazing thing is, you dont actually realise when it changes. Its done so well:

The colors reflect emotions and really help tell the story. Like when there's flashbacks to the past with characters family's there is a warm yellow grading and like i said before, you just don't notice the transition.

Another film i recently watched is limitless. Brilliant film; the story is about a guy who takes a special drug which makes him have an enhanced mind. But the effect doesn't last so he needs more and more. Quite appropriately, when hes off the drugs the color grading is very de-saturated:

Hahaha







And then when hes on the drug, his whole world brightens up, saturation overload!!:

Really its not that saturated but because the de-saturated grading before is so intensely dull, it makes this look soooooo much more different

Yummmm

When it comes to food, ESPECIALLY fine dining, presentation is very important. 

You eat with your eyes first, you see color, it attracts you.

 Like a painting, food has composition and color proportion and theory too.

Ever had a proper bento lunch box? (cant find a good image, if i got to London soon, ill take a picture of one) There are rules to how you compose it. I know they're supposed to have the white rice, green and red salad leaves (complimentary), the brown meat with what ever sauce (katsu sauce yummm thats brown as well, but a harmonious reddish brown against the orange brown chicken...mmmmm) 

Anyways the amount of the food in each compartment is as important as the attractiveness of each compartment.

Looking at this dessert....oh my gosh the tint of orange balanced with the red of the strawberries on top. Also the complimentary green of the kiwi. Gorgeous. And then that chocolate pudding below....Wow, again the complimentary green leaves and red berries. I think the brown of the chocolate sponge is actually a broken color derived from the red and green. Nice, really hungry now

more random occurring colours

 I saw this sculpture thing...in uni and i just have to comment on it. Im not sure if its been painted or if its rust and tarnished metal but its beautiful. I think the colors are complimentary as well














 Look at these tints of green on the moss and on the broken pavement.














I went to stratford westfeild and i just have to comment oloody boring, its just too much glass, could you imagine if we had an earthquake? Jeez. But again the central color seems to be grey ALL THE TIME
look below:






Even when its sunny, take away the sky....main colour? GREY










And in this one, and dont look past the brown on the trees because thats a broken colour aswell.










Look at all the colour in this photo Hahaha whats the dominant colour still? GREY










Sigh...

Confusion!!!

I usually don't like abstract art because its confusing, the sense of color proportion is usually crazy and illogical. i guess that's why its abstract LOL.

There's an artist called Jaclyn Hawtin. She does abstract work and to be honest, I only like this mouse mat she done. Here style is really interesting though it seems (and I'm saying this with respect) it seems anyone can do what she does. But that's just opinion.

The colors are used in a contrasting way, red domination but with that blue isolated square in the middle makes the image dynamic

I also found an English texture artist called Mary-Clare Buckle. In this example she used felt on a light box....looks like she just threw it there, no arrangement no pattern, just a mess of colors. Its quite pretty in fact Hahaha But its still confusing =/

hmmm random flash of colour?

'Lone Traveller' by Jeff O'dowd. I love how the image is black and white which is as unsaturated as you can get and then there's a random saturated suitcase. It immediately grabs your eye and keeps your focus.

Below is a photo i took when we went to London for the bfi cinematography masterclass. I absolutely adore this photo because of the guy with the red hoodie . As the sky is really the only other part of this photo that has real color, he immediately grabs your eye just like the photo above.

Hmmm, our bright world?

Look how saturated my homeland is. And yes its actually like this. Barbados for the win Hahaha

Oh wait, look at my home town hackney...what lovely varieties of grey...broken colors

Ohh what a lovely saturated picture of china...obviously somewhere away from the grey pollution of the capital

Ohh back in Hatfield, Grey Hatfield, honestly, i really hate this country sometimes

Hair colours

Now for this blog entry i really wanted a sunny day so i could take a picture of my hair in the sun...but i forgot we live in Hatfield >_____>



The point i wanted to make was that in the sun your hair changes color, its enhanced, the hue is more powerful and pure and sometimes tinted.

The word im looking for is...more... saturated! Its like a gamma overload or something, don't know what i'm on about there lol

Im guessing this happens because light reflects of the hair into our eyes. so yeah, the sun does add extra white to the natural hair color as well.

Light and dark

Shades are colors that have black added to them, tints are colors that have white added to them. Look at this hummingbird. The way how the green on the body and wings merges into the white breast feathers. Lovely. that light green is a tint of the green above its eyes. Look at the red under the beak. It has some parts with black added = shades of red.

When you think about it, light really affects thee way we see colors. Even in our natural every day world, its surprising we don't get a brain overload with all that's going on. I took some examples of the art building at uni. See how the color of the bricks are darker in the shade. That's because it has black added to it. Look at the top of the camera, it has a highlight, this is more white because of the sky's light. 

In fact, the sun is quite important in how we see color...actually, i'll talk about this later lol

Tints and shades in fashion

Usually in make up you would be using pure hues to make someone look beautiful. Unless its for some funky fashion shoot. Actually the red lip look is quite popular but that's about it really.

For like eye shadows and glitters you'd usually have tints and shades of broken colors and pure hues. They all tend to be not too far from natural skin tones. Again when it comes to make up, color theory is very important; using colors carefully to contrast and make others look dominant.

Again with blusher, the key is subtlety, that means tints and shades of pinks and browns and reds..harmonious colors actually. 

you don't wanna look like this douche below do you?  

Are white and black colours?

Who said white and black inst a color? Science? I don't give a flying rat what anyone says, White and black are colors.
You wouldn't go into a paint shop asking for light would you. Look here to the left. What do you see? White to black value chart. these are colors, grey too. 'what colour would you paint your bathroom? White? Yes.

Yes it makes sense to say that black is an absence of color and light  but pigmented it is a color.
Its the same with white, yes the sun has white light which is why we get rainbows when it rains because the colors split blah blah blah whatever.

Anyways, to do with light when you mix all colors you get white, but with pigments, you mix all colors and you  get what? i dunno, grey? black? certainly not white though O__o

I refuse to open my mind to this controversial subject. In this backwards world I'm not a science person therefore 'logic' is nonsense to me and nonsense is logic. I'm getting too carried away here LOL