- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> <<I always think of it as an orange album, all the
> songs are orange tinged (or paprika coloured, maybe
> it's the album cover that's influencing a little.>>
>
>...
>
> What I was going to say/ask is about the two colors
> that primarily make up the cover...that light blue
> and rust color. Since the album deals with so much
> duality, are those colors like total opposites? (I'm
> asking the visual artists in the crowd...) I wonder
> if you stared at the jacket, and then at a white
> surface, if the colors would reverse.
>
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----Catherine McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>They (blue and orange) are complementary colours. I'm
>not really sure if that means they're "opposite" or
>not. The primary colours are red, blue and yellow.
>The complementary colour of each is made up of a
>combination of the two that are left - so the
>complementary colour of red is green (blue + yellow);
>the complementary colour of blue is orange (red +
>yellow); and the complementary colour of yellow is
>purple (red + blue). Then you can change them by
>greying them down; or adding white - you would have to
>add a corresponding amount of grey (black) or white to
>the complementary colours as well. Rust is (more or
>less) a combination of red and orange (red + yellow),
>so the complementary colour to that would be a
>combination of green (blue + yellow) and blue - in
>other words, aqua. And so on. Add a little grey or
>white to tone them down, and you've got the colours of
>DJRD. Something like that.
It's very interesting... Try to fill two squares with the two colours -
rust and blue -, invert the image and what you'll see is that the two
coloured squares swap places. This means that the colours that Joni chose
for the cover are actually almost perfect opposites.
Black and white, shadows and light, wrong and right, cruelty and delight,
blindnessa and sight...
Raf (London)
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