Exercise: Sol LeWitt

When I read Color Me Real about Sol LeWitt, I was intrigued by his use of color for obvious reasons. He uses a lot of colors and geometric shapes. Towards the end of the article, it goes through his process and what materials he uses. It says that he uses gel-colored lights. This made me curious as to what that is. It turns out that gel-colored lights are opaque color cards that are tinted in a certain color. It's used for theatre and it's a way to alter the color of the lights. 

When I was told to make something, I started to make geometric shapes. I tried to make them all the same shape but that didn't go so well. So I went with this first image. I also was messing around with opacity to get that gel-colored light effect.

I made the squares in primary colors and the rectangles in secondary colors. It's all based on the color wheel. I then rotated it and messed around with the opacity even more to look like this:

This seemed so generic to me. So I combined the rotations together and that's the result of these 3 pieces.

So this is my final piece up here. It's a little different from Sol Lewitt because of all the overlapping but the use of color and geometric shapes is an inspiration in this piece.