The Fish or Cut Bait Derby Award for

First Person to Complete Assignment #1
goes to
Christopher Rywalt for:

Stillness

Night Light

White Smoke

After our email exchange about how nice it is to draw on paint chips, I remembered my stash of Color-aid chips. "Since 1948 Color-aid Corp. has been manufacturing the Color-aid system of colored paper. Initially developed as a backdrop for photographers, Color-aid was soon thereafter discovered by Josef Albers and has since then become an indispensable teaching tool in art and design classes." The color is screened on (I believe) and it has a very unique surface, not like any other printing medium. I use them teaching color theory classes while spending a couple of days with the Interaction of Color. The cut-outs used in Lowe's paint chips (used to isolate one color in relation to another color) descend from Albers career:

I know that this sort of fine art is not up everyone's alley, but I feel there is not only beauty in his pieces but life lessons in relativity that even the most cynical non-art majors respond to. In the study below the "x" is the same color on each field. Context is everything. Set and Setting.

Thanks Chris