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Lime green paper with a thin beige colored rectangle glued on top. The same shape but in purple paper is across from this, with the same beige rectangle strip on top. Three rectangle strips of paper separate these two pieces, from bottom: a dark purple strip, a muted grayish purple strip, and a gray strip.
An hourglass shaped image, made of blue and purple paper. Two purple hexagons are glued on top of the different colored larger hexagons, blue and dark purple, and half ovals make an almond shape in the center of the hourglass shaped image, one half dark purple, one half light blue.
A red paper octagon with a mint green border and the word ‘STOP’ in the center. The red and green stop sign has a black dot in the center, with a black dot spaced away next to it on a white piece of paper.
4 squares of white paper containing different colored scenes of a stegosaurus in the foreground, and a hill with a volcano in the background. The scene is made up of cut paper in 4 different colors: fuschia, sky blue, violet, and dark blue. All the colors are used in a different way per each square to make four differently colored scenes of the same image.
Cut pieces of paper making the image of a flow with leaves around it, a stem, and grass beneath it. The flower petals are a gradient of bright yellow from the center to dark brown at the edges. The leaves are a gradient of light blue to dark blue, the stem is dark teal to light teal, and the grass is light green.

Gabriella Ferrans, Team Alber’s Projects

Fall 2024

Color Aid Paper (various colors), watercolor paper, glue

Images above from top to bottom: One Color into Two Part 1, One Color into Two Part 2, One Color into Two Part 3, After-Image, 4 Color Environments, Gradients

Learning about Team Alber’s and the different uses of colors helped me realize how differently everyone sees color. The three different studies of how the same color can look like two different colors based on background colors was a great example of this. A color change that look obvious to me may not be so obvious to the person sitting next to me, and can easily change due to the surrounding lighting. This again was also shown in the 4 Color Environments, where a simple arrangement of the same colors can different from one another. I had a lot of fun with the After-Image, and I knew immediately I wanted to create something that would jump out at the audience. The word ‘STOP’ in bright magenta-reddish lettering stayed in your eyes even after looking away from the white paper, as I was told by my classmates. All of these exercises, combined with the Gradients, posed as fun brain-teasers on how to create a universally appealing image with different or the same colors. It helped me understand to think of colors in broader terms, on how they can not only work well in my own eyes, but also the eyes of my viewers.