What are the next assignments, where are they explained, and when are they due?
Assignments are occasional. You manage your work between Targets to complete your work successfully by the Target date. (See the Target links.) The section coaches help you with work you bring into each studio. The weekly meetings explain exercise topics.
==========Do my solutions have to match the exercise examples?
All of our exercises progress from little or no choice to mostly choice. The examples show one possible solution. Your solutions do not have to match the examples if your solutions satisfy the exercise criteria. However, you must support and communicate your decisions.
==========What is the best material to use for the Unit 1 exercises?
The interval studies materials are cut paper, or black gesso and white gesso, or black plaka and white plaka. Designer color works well, but it is more expensive, and it is not permanent like the other paint types.
==========Can you explain simplex, duplex, and complex?
Unit 1 and Unit 3 contain the ideas simplex, duplex, and complex. Simplex, as we use it, means a single something, for example, a tube color, or a progression in one direction. Duplex, as we use it, means a double something, for example, one color mixed from two colors, or two progressions in opposite directions. Complex, as we use it, means a multiple something, for example, one color mixed from more than two colors, or progressions in multiple directions.
In Unit 1 exercises, for example, the simplex progressions have black intervals and white intervals that progress in the same direction, for example left-to-right. The duplex progressions have black intervals and white intervals that progress in opposite directions, for example, black intervals progress left-to-right, and white intervals progress right-to-left. The complex progressions have black intervals and white intervals that progress in opposite directions in multiple layers, for example, simplex on duplex.
==========What are the interval measurements for Unit 1 exercises?
The intervals are dynamic subdivision of the square not measurements. You determine the intervals with major diagonals and minor diagonals subdividing the square by thirds: 3 x 3 x 3.... Three to the third power (three cubed) is usually small enough for the 100mm size.
==========Must the polyhedra models be solid?
We compared the terms solids and volumes, and recognized that although we use the term Platonic solids we are actually making volumes. You may choose to make solid models, but it is unnecessary.
==========What is the difference between Unit 3 exercise 1.1.4 and 1.1.5?
Exercise 1.1.1 divides our colors into two simplex sets, set 1 (warm) and set 2 (cool).Exercise 1.1.4 creates the duplex set 1 (warm) from the simplex set 1 colors (warm). Exercise 1.1.5 creates the duplex set 2 (cool) from the simplex set 2 colors (cool).
==========What is the difference between Unit 3 exercise 2.1.2 and 2.1.3?
Exercises 1.1.4 and 1.1.5 are mixing exercises that mix duplex sets 1 and 2 from simplex sets 1 and 2. Exercises 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 are positioning exercises that show a relative position of duplex colors between simplex colors: duplex set 1 between simplex set 1 colors, and duplex set 2 between simplex set 2 colors.
==========Can you explain the Unit 3 exercises 4.1?
The 3.4 Exercises concern relationships among ranges (gamuts) between the light extreme (white) and the dark extreme (black). A gamut is what color science calls a range. Exercise .4.1.4, for example, calls for a grey (any grey you choose to mix) that lies within the lightness gamut of the simplex colors. (See exercise .4.1.1.) The exercise also calls for a mixing formula (a recipe) for your chosen grey so that you can remix that exact grey in future exercises.