Tone Reversal

Jay Mills, Tone Reversal, 2015, Acrylic on Paper, 130cm x 130cm

This work ‘Tone Reversal`, portrays the contrasts between light and dark by alternating the tone value of a specific colour ‘Prussian blue`. The grid has forced me to work with clean, bold, densely applied acrylic paints for this piece in order to maintain the flat, geometric, precise form. Looking at Josef Albers`s experiments with colour interaction I have conducted my own experiments into the effect of background colour on foreground colour and the interaction that is demonstrated by to two.