1. Assignment 1
Lighting and Moods

2. Color wheel Primary colors: red, yellow, and blue
Secondary colors: orange (red and yellow), green (yellow and blue), and violet (red and blue)
Tertiary colors: made by adding more of one color than the other. For example: red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet
Neutral colors: colors not found on the color wheel. They include: black, white, gray, brown, tan.

3. Color Schemes— What is a scheme?
It is a plan, or orderly combination of related parts. A color scheme is one or more related colors used together to create a mood/feeling in a room.
Monochromatic: different tints and shades of one color.
Mood: calm, boring, add interest through different textures.
Accented Neutral: neutral colors and 1 color from the color wheel.
Mood: calm, with a little bit of excitement.
Analogous/related: 3 colors next to each other on the color wheel;
Mood: relaxing if in same value (i.e. light, medium, or dark).
Complementary/Strong contrast: 2 colors opposite each other on the color wheel.
Mood: stimulating, lively, bold, can overpower.
Triad: 3 colors equal distance on the color wheel; they form a triangle.
Mood: energetic

4. Assignment 1 Creating Mood Color Composition and Recording in Different Lighting Conditions
1. Choose BASIC LINE DRAWING OF AN INTERIOR
2. Choose colors (from the mood concept): each has dark, medium, and light tones.
3. Use your light color as the background to dominate the room. Background includes floors, walls, and ceilings.
4. Put your medium tone on the largest pieces of furniture. This includes beds, drapes, chairs, dressers. The pattern can also be placed here.
5. Add the dark color as an accent. For example, pillows, vases, frame.
Law of Chromatic Distribution: As areas reduce in size, the chromatic intensity can be increased. Using less of a bright color, will make it look brighter, and emphasize it. Too much intense color can be irritating, uncomfortable, because the eye has no place to rest. Balance small areas of intense color with large areas of neutral ones.
6. Photograph your composition in four different lighting conditions:
Daylighting-During dusk and midday
Artificial Lighting-florescent and incandescent

5. Submission Submission is on A4 landscape format Should include
The room drawing-full colored using cut-outs from magazines (1 page)
Results of different lighting conditions-together with pictures of the ambient lighting and the lighting fixtures (4 pages)

9. daytime
nightime