Colour
The colour project part one second year on my course. I visited the Tate museum in Liverpool and I went in the ' Turner, Twombly, Monet' part and I used Twombly as an artist to look at for inspiration because I thought his work was so interesting because the way he expressed his work is unique because of the brush strokes he uses. For development I went into the dance studio in the college that I go to and watched the dancers and I drew the movements that they made to create compositions which I then filled in and I did four of these and cut them into long strips. The first four was filled using tone and the next four was filled using colours. The artists I looked at during this project was Patrick Heron, Henri Matisse and C W Twombly. Their use of colour inspired me and taught me which colours work best together and which makes the piece move.
COOL COLOURS
These are the first few pages in my sketchbook where I was experimenting with 'cool colours', 'warm colours' and 'neutral colours' I did this to give me more of an understanding of colour.
Again I was experimenting with colours but this time they were complamentary, I used the same pattern and I switched the two colours round to see how much of a difference it made. This made me realise when and where I should use complamentary colours.
I did the same thing with analogous colours but using a different pattern. By looking back at these in my sketchbook whilst working on development it gave me ideas on which colours work well together.
This is a page of primary research which I did in my sketchbook. I have done line drawings with fine liners. I drew this from looking at a piece of Michael Craig Martins work.
This is another page of primary research, I took this from a piece of work by 'Piet Mondrian' I have repeated the pattern three times and also rotated it, I then painted them using acrylic paints but made the colours ligher each time to add interest.
Here I have used acrylic paint to create this primary research, the reason I used acrylic was because the colours are bold and bright, I think that it was the most appropriate media to use.
I created these three compositions to give me ideas on what my tonal pieces may look like. This taught me about contrast and which tones to put next to each other to create movement.
Here are my four final tonal pieces that I created from watching dancers move. The first one was done in just acrylic paint, the second one was done using chalk and charcoal, with this media lots of different tones can be created by mixing the two together or using them on their own. The third one was sone using mixed media which is also a good way to create tone as there are a lot of black and white material and media to use. The fourth one was done using calk and charcoal again but this time I added more pattern and techniques into it.
After doing my tonal pieces I then did three more compositions in my book to give me an idea on which colours to use on my final colour pieces. The first one was just made using the complimentary colours, blue and orange but I also added different tones of blue and orange which added interest. I then tried out the secondary colours purple, green and orange. And then for the third one I tried the primary colours red, yellow and blue. This helped me realise which colours work well together.
These are two of my final colour pieces, for the first one I have used a range of different colours using different techniques and I have also added patterns. The other one is simply blue and orange complimentary colours but changing the tone each time.
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