Rose Wheeler – Talking Colours

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Red pencil drawing in continuous line – Kieran’s halloween costume.
Oil pastel – washing up left on my desk.
Chalk pastels – three legged dog outside Waitrose.
Black felt tip continuous line drawing – ripped fishnet shorts.
Oil pastel drawing and photo collage – birthday cake still life.
Oil pastel and colouring pencil drawings – fabric tubes in Tesco.
Pencils and oil pastel – broken chair sign.
Oil pastel – Joe’s strawberry ring.
Oil pastel and colouring pencil – angel cake.
Colouring pencil – empty plate.
Colouring pencil – crisp packet on desk.
Oil pastel and colouring pencil – face mask.
Colouring pencil – breakfast on sunday.
Oil pastel and colouring pencil – Billy’s foot at the picnic.
Colouring pencil – faces.
Fine liner and oil pastel – cutting out carboard fairy wings.
Colouring pencils and oil pastel – faces.

The task ‘Talking Colours’ allowed me to concentrate on documenting colour which I really enjoyed and I tried to view the objects and sceneries, I was drawing as blocks of colour combinations. For the first few weeks I didn’t have many art materials with me and so I felt quite limited, I was worried all my drawings would end up looking similar, especially as the task was about experimenting and finding new ways to document what you can see. I focused on drawing objects around me and tried to use my drawings as a way to narrate my first weeks in London although as we went into lockdown what I was able to draw from became more mundane and I wish I had made more drawings from outside of my room. I prefer the drawings that have more detailed, sketched outlines over the more simplistic drawings I did that concentrate on narrating colour because I think they would translate better to fabric. If I had the opportunity to do the project again I would try to be much more experimental and creative with drawing tools and also make larger scale drawings so that I could have more aspects of work that I could collate and develop ideas from.

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