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Challenge: Deconstructing color

Challenge: Deconstructing color

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Challenge: Deconstructing color

- Have you ever bitten into a delicious cookie and wondered, what's that flavor I taste? Is it cinnamon or ginger? Trying to figure out the ingredients of a thing is something we do anytime we want to replicate it. With complex systems, it's known as reverse engineering, A process of trying to figure out the properties, function, and principles of something. If you apply that thinking to color, you can learn, simply by deconstructing what they're made of so that you can replicate a color, based on analysis and experience. Your challenge is to find a pre-made tertiary color from a tube of paint, a pastel stick, or if you're in a digital environment, it could be from an image or a palette in Photoshop. Look at the color for 10 seconds, then hide it from your view, don't cheat. Using whatever materials the color's made of, pixel, paint, or other media, and try to recreate what you remember that color to be in the same medium, to get to what you think is the color. Make it an inch by an…

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