Colour Theme

This is the front cover of my theme 'Colour'

We all see colour through our eyes so I decided to make a piece with a colourful eye. I used water colour pencils and pastels and a pencil. The drawing didn't turn out as well as I thought it would've but it's not too bad I guess.

 I thought if the dib and dab technique so I decided to try it out with acrylic paints. I wanted to paint something simple enough for me to sucessfully create a nice outcome easily so I picked the Eiffel Tower. This technique looks pretty good, I think I'll use it again in future projects.

This idea I got from one of my cousins. I used colored card and weaved them together to make these patterns. I used multiple colours to link it with the theme. The square piece turned out nicely but then I tried to make it a little bit more interesting to so I made a star shape, but this didn't work out as good as I hoped for.

 



I made the piece on the right from dripping the coloured ink from the left piece into the sink. I saw this nice abstract effect so I decided to take a pic and edit it on photoshop to produce different effects. It was just by luck that I created such a beautiful abstract, I didn't intententionally want this.

This in inspired by an artist called Iain Andrews. This artist has beautiful works of colour and detail which had a sort of melty effect to it so I tried to create my own version. I used acrylic paints mixed with water for the melty effect, the painting is meant to look like a fire breathing dragon.

This is my collage print. I created a patternt out of card and then used green ink to print it with. I then used coloured pencils to fill in the white space because it looked unfinished. I can say the added colour has given it that extra oomph of improvement.

I also created a Lino print but this time i printed it a little differently to see what effect it would make. I used 3 different coloured and printed them just beside each other to get this nice distorted look. I like how it turned out because the colours go very well together.

 

I also created a couple embossing prints as sample pieces. I used water colours for the one on the left and drawing inks on the one on the right. I had to make a second one because the first one didn't print too well because the paper was too thin. I learnt that thick paper is needed for this kind of print so I changed paper for the second print.

I had to do some mark making. I wanted to use dark colours instead of the usual bright colours that I've been using so I have a different variety of colour. This was just all experimental work, I tried out all kinds of materials. This was my first time using the wax pot which was very interesting and new to me.

This is a technique that I've used once before in high school. It was a nice technique so I wanted to try it agian but this time with multiple colours to link it with the theme. I like the abstract look and brightness of this piece, it gives off a happy kind of mood to me. I used black biro, water colours and a touch of white paint.

 

This is the biggest piece that I've done so far for this project. It was created with soft pastels, drawing inks, paints, pro markers and coloured pencils. I felt like using all of the colourful media that I had to create a vibrant colourful piece of work. It gives off a nice and happy feeling which was what i wanted to do.

This piece is just experimetation. All the colour that I used for this piece are all from coloured tissue paper. I found out this idea of wetting tissue paper and then squeezing the ink out onto the page. I just splashed the colour everywhere to see how it would turn out.

 

I have decided that this would be my final piece for this theme. It is a forest type of scenery, I created a contrast from pencil to colour to show the difference in media. Colour brings things to life whereas pencil looks a little dull. I used pencil, water colours and coloured pencils to create this art work. I am happy with how it turned out, it could've been worse. The only down side I have to this piece is that It doesn't look too much like a forest because you can only see three trees but overall I think it's still awesome.

 

UCAS Trip

I also visited the GMX centre in Manchester to get a look at what kind of universites there are. I had recieved a good variety of prospectuses and information from the universites that I was interested in. I now have a better understanding of which universities I would like to go to.

Visit to the museum

A few weeks ago I visited the Warrington Museum and looked at all the different kinds of artwork on display. I was hoping to find some new inspiration for my project. My theme was colour so I took photographs of anything that looked colourful to me. Some of the things I saw were quite interesting especially the things in the animal room. I only found one artist whose works seemed like it would link perfectly to my theme of colour and this artist's name is Iain Andrews.

Finding your direction

This is the third project of my foundation year. I have to pick 2 different themes from the list that was given to me to base my work around. I am too work on one theme for the first three weeks and the second theme for the next 3 weeks. I am already in my third week so far and my work is going well. I have chosen my first theme which is 'Colour', i chose this because it seemed like a really good theme where I can experiment fully with lots of fdiffernt materials in an easy and fun way. I have still not decided what my second theme is, I will think about it over the Christmas holidays but so far I think I am doing a good job on the Colour theme.