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Now, I think we can actually start with these colors.

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It's kind of interesting, right?

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And our goal basically is going to make

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what is now three colors looking like two,

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going in the opposite direction where we have two colors on the inside that are different from

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each other and we're going to try to make them look alike.

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So I'm going to keep the blend

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and I'm going to copy these two colors.

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I'm just going to move that down here.

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And move them to the center.

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So right now, as we can see,

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these colors are exactly the same.

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And up here they look very, very different.

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So I'm going to make this color over here.

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I'm going to sample that from the red side.

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And this one I will sample from the green side.

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So we see how these colors are so different from each other.

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And the goal now is to try to make these two colors look the same by sampling from these.

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So if I come up here,

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if I sample this color,

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come over here and I sample this color,

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see how dramatically different they are.

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But now let's do the opposite.

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So on this side,

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I'll sample this color.

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On this side, I'll sample this color.

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And you see there's not quite

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enough contrast over here to really make that work.

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I'm going to try making this background

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just a little bit darker.

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First I'll try sampling from the blend a little bit farther out in the center.

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So the goal is to try to make these two colors look the same.

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And they're pretty close right now.

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Even though you see how different they are down here.

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It's always still a matter of subtraction.

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So if I make this color darker,

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it's going to make this look a little bit lighter.

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And I don't want to do that.

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If I make this color look lighter,

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it's going to make

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that look a little bit darker.

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I'm not sure I want to do that either.

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But let's just give it a try.

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See what happens.

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Made it look lighter.

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Too much.

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It's better before.

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It's going to make this look a little bit lighter.

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Actually a little bit better.

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This is a much more difficult exercise and it takes a lot longer.

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But remember that these exercises that Albers gives us,

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it's all about creating an awareness

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of color that's greater than what you go in with.

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The goal is to experiment with colors,

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to try different things out,

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to get used to the

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idea of changing the identity of the color based on hue, value and saturation.

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To try to solve a problem.

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In this case, we're trying to make these two colors look very similar to each other.

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We can see how different they are down here.

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Right.

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The smaller units here and here, the very bottom.

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They look quite a bit different from each other.

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Up here,

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they look closer to each other.

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They're about the same hue.

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They look like that,

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but we know they're different.

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But up here, they look very similar and they're about the same value.

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If I put them side by side,

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you know, we can see how different they are.

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Very, very different colors.

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The back,

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they look more similar.

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And what I'm trying to do is subtract just enough of the background,

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enough of the value of the background,

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enough of the hue of the background to make this look like

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that.

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Same thing on this side.

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You can play with the background colors.

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You can play with the foreground colors.

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You can try changing these two colors down here by sampling from different places on the blend.

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All of those things are possible.

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So that's simultaneous contrast.

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It's a great way to expand your awareness of color principles.

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The Id and Rid compositions are very,

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very similar.

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You're expanding your awareness of color contrast.

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Here, it's one specific contrast.

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Contrast of simultaneous contrast.

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So if we think back to all of the contrasts we've studied so far,

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contrast of hue, value,

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saturation,

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temperature, complementary contrast,

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contrast of extension,

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and then finally simultaneous contrast.

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All of those different ideas help us understand the principles of color.

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They help us identify colors.

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They help us understand how color works and how we see,

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how we as humans see color,

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how we perceive color.

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In this lesson, you learned how color is the most relative medium in art.

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In the next lesson,

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you'll learn about the illusion of transparency.

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And I'll see you next time.