While designing an art gallery for a welder I was able to
take my ideas for the space and create a poster to submit to the STIR
Competition. The STIR Competition student design challenge created by Sherwin
Williams is a way for students to be able to work with certain colors and color
schemes produced by Sherwin Williams. I picked an analogous color scheme of
yellow and red with a neutral brown. The yellow and brown were placed in spaces
were the artwork was the main focus while the red was placed in spots where
there was not much artwork was around so that it was not taking away from the
pieces of art. Yellow was mainly chosen to go with my inspiration object which
was a wooden door and the gold plate that was placed on it. The red went with
the wood and how it had a bit of a red tint to it. This color scheme also works
well with the artwork of the welder chosen for the gallery space, she uses red
often to add a pop of color and browns and yellows is seen in the actual
materials. For this competition my biggest weakness was deciding which parts of
the gallery would work best to show my concept and the reason I chose the
colors I did. My strength in this process was matching my renderings to the
specific colors and showing the different values of the chosen colors. In my
final poster for the competition I successfully was able to explain and show my
concept through my sketches, renderings, materials, and color palette.
