TAC paint sample mock-up~ my responses

1. 5 Snappy-Colors Palette
Making the Case for Warming it
Up_ Visually!

2. Beginning with floor
tiles in a
neutral color:

3. Choosing a color palette that
is ‘distinctive, up-beat &
professional’:

4. When considering color_ why
not just go wild exploring first?
Let’s visually peruse some of
the master expressions of
color throughout art history:

5. As has been said, human beings & cultures have been
communicating symbolically through color & shapes, for
thousands of years.

6. Let’s take a fundamentally
solid color palette, & just run
with it through a few filters of
visual consideration.
Beginning by looking at the
work of some art historical
mistresses, & masters of
color:

7. Artemisia Gentileschi needs no introduction!

8. What I am struck by in her works are the depths of darks
and lights expressed through rich color tonality, & the
drama. For me, her works are a visual balance of strong
color choices that hold no fear.
Indeed, the work of Artemisia Gentileschi needs no introduction. All too often remembered for the story about
a false accusation of impropriety in a young woman when in fact she survived an attack; and above & beyond
such damning distraction_ by the time this experienced threatened,_what she had already accomplished
artistically was deft use of strong natural pigments that made lesser men jealous enough to try to sabotage her
early career as a painter-apprentice, while she was still working in her father’s atelier.
In the painting ‘Judith Beheading Holofernes’ for example, (and I chose to depict a less gruesome example)_ is
exhibited her skilled subject matter (what I imagine was an outlet for blowing out of her memory so much
more than the steam of an ordeal she endured); a trauma that placed the young Artemisia in the courts of Italy
defending her very life against a violently manufactured lie.
I am in awe how her color ranges in a relatively limited palette, visually blowing right past any detractors of
her day, expressing what she might have felt having been devalued so egregiously.
My eyes see all manner of depths in vermilion, shades of burnt umber, the rich & brilliant hues of jaune
centrally placed, where the brave placement of greens & blues complete the story in rich color application,
while she also equally exploits light & dark to tension-building effects.
I have included a few other examples in the collage of her works to cultivate visual appetite.

9. Rembrandt Van Rijn_
talent to spare at all that he touched!

10. Nobody does it better than Mother Nature,
in making the case for using warm tones strikingly_
within a succinct color palette:

11. When I first saw the painting
mock ups for the near-future
location of TAC on the 3rd
floor of Waldo Hall, I
immediately thought of
Vermilion!
My first response was, I need
something to be warm in that
color mock up.

12. No one quite masters the art of expression that moves
powerfully in his palette of Vermilion, like Eugène Delacroix!

13. Some artists such as this just have the
touch!

14. And though other artists have lived fast
& furiously under the uneducated stigma
of having been labeled as ‘touched’_

15. There may be no better ambassador reminding us of the pure
exhilarating energy expressing through visual texture, color &
light_ from outside the bounds of expectation, when we just
follow our own creative intelligence_ than Vincent Van Gogh!

16. In deed, everywhere we look in our world today_ this fascinating
5-color palette continues to visually arrest our attention in quite
distinctive ways_ when tweaked to be used effectively.

17. Having given it some thought over a
couple of days, I submit my responses in
favor of the chosen essential palette_
That it be turned up to warmer tonalities
that show a consideration for this sun-
starved culture of the Pacific Northwest.
As positive productivity continues to
happen in our work environments, when
the temperatures around us also feel
warm & inviting!

18. The proposed 5-color palette as I see it, in the 2 asymmetrical shapes:
Adding white later to established
cream tone areas is nice.
Think 90% dark chocolate here! Think deep Coho Salmon,
or deep Terra Cotta Coho Salmon!
Pacific Ocean pale slate blue tones on a misty warm day.
Deep Marigold & Sunflower Yellow_
Tuscany references.
With my color recommendations & comments overlapping_

19. One final visual note from the
master of intimacy through
color:

20. Johannes Vermeer
*Remember in the movie, “Girl with a Pearl Earring,”
when he asks Griet to describe what color she sees a cloud is?

21. K
Kimmy has come up with a great palette.
Let’s warm it up by adding yellows and reds
into the chosen colors; swap out the grey for
warm pale slate blues, or greens, or pale slate
blue-green, and warm up the black to more of
a deep dark chocolate color. It’s done on
campus while still esthetically within the image
of the mighty orange & black.
I’m thinkin’ Sharffen Berger_ packaging et al!
Nothing wrong with good taste within defined
parameters, in Pacific Northwest fashion.