"The Artist" - Learn about color choice through comparison.
(The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport Connecticut 1992)

As an artist with a 25 year career, Pannucci has used color as an intrinsic and powerful design element. To her, choosing colors for an image was always emotive and intuitive, but later she learned about the formal qualities of warm and cool colors and different color systems such as complimentary, monochromatic and neutrals.

For the exhibit piece called, "The Artist", she wanted the viewer to be transported into a virtual painter's studio via the vitality of 3-D components. She therefore designed a paint bench that is encrusted with rich layers of "wet-looking", dripped enamel colors where a white formica painter's palette rests. A huge wooden easel with three stretched white canvases is mounted against the wall opposite the paint bench.

Onto this 3-D stage, the computer's artificial intelligence and interactive capabilities complete the platform for learning. A computer monitor with touch screen is embedded face-up in the painter's palette and a custom-designed paint program allows for split screen capability and simultaneous projection from a video projector mounted from the ceiling. The participant can paint the same image in three different colorways: monochromatic, complimentary and split-complimentary and then compare them to discover which they prefer.