Project Brief
In this week long project I have explored the use of block
colour and positive and negative shapes to portray my chosen theme of Natural
Forms. This has included painting, collage, ink, oil pastel and printmaking. I
have worked with natural forms in my observational drawings, using techniques
like cutting without drawing to get a flat colour shape and drawing an outline
of the object to get a similar flat effect. Through research I have looked at
the benefits of using a limited colour palette as well as bright colours and
limiting them to a certain tone.
I found the project harder than I originally expected because
of being limited to block colour a lot of the time. Previously we have been
focusing on line, and the difference took some time to get used too. The most
useful part of the week was when we were mixing colours to the exact shade, as
it’s something I haven’t done before to such accuracy.
I would say that my biggest weakness this week was combining
the natural forms with my word on the last day as I wanted to work from
observation but my word; swift, didn’t allow much, especially at this time of
year. At this point, I found it hard to motivate myself and I could probably
have pushed it further with a bit more time.
The project on a whole has been very successful as I have
been introduced to several new ways of working and done lots of experimentation
with materials. In the future I would like to develop this project in the print
workshop, as we had little time in there to work on this project, and it lends
itself to the block colour and shape very well.
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