Applicator of color to the blank face of the world!

Enough about boring color theory for a moment. Now it's time to talk about applying all we learned boys and girls. Exhibit "A" would be an adventure to a restaurant named Wasabi. It is a sushi restaurant that has a conveyerbelt where plates comes out with the different dishes. The tricky part is that the plates are different colors to signify what the price is for that certain plate. There are yellow, orange, red, blue, and violet plates that come out of that small door to sushi paradise at the ends of the conveyerbelt. Sounds great, right? Wrong. Luckily I was in the restaurant with a fellow class mate. The difference between the most costly $6 violet plate at the $4.50 red plate was hard to distinguish. After a few dozen plates went by we started to recognize which of the red/violet plates had more blue content. By comparing we saved some money and also applied our comparison skills on the yellow and orange plates to see which had more red content. We tried to save money by using these skills, but our hunger, mainly mine, made trying to save money kind of difficult.

The next wonderful color application exhibit "B" came at my job. Our baker Yasmin was trying to figure out how to make the correct colors of green and browns to create camouflage icing on a cake. She had a green that was a blue-green and a color that looked like a tint of sienna. She needed one more color to make good spots for camouflage. I suggested taking some of her green icing and adding some red into it. She looked at me like I was crazy, but she trusted me. We sat there adding dots of red, folding them in each time and waiting to see what color came out before adding more. It turned a beautiful brown that fit perfectly with the other chosen icing. She told me that she would ask me from them on if she needed color consultation.


There you have it, color theory in action. James and I experienced color in our sushi dinner. The warm colored plates were less expensive, which helped appeal to my appetite, which didn't help my bill after I ate so many of them. Icing is a vehicle of used for the food coloring so that Yasmin can make all sorts of works of art on her cakes.

Bottom line, color theory use is everywhere.



Picture of wasabi plates: http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/bestbites/3557.html