Talking Colours & Patterns
TC= talking colour TP= talking pattern
fine liner+colour pencil (TP) try to make it 3D but it didn’t work soo well. (TC) dry pastel (TC)
bottom of the Egg Box in Markers (TP)
French press on tea bag & tea bag’s bag(with some tea stain on it). Makers (TC) just think that photo this on the back is interesting/special
Left 1: I intentionally drew it longer so it won’t feel empty on the top and bottom. Marker
Left 2: since the texture of the tea bag, the drawing feel fuzzy but I like it kind of creating the ‘tea feel’/chill?
Marker+ Colour pencil (create more details,green)
I like how the green freshy colour pop out from the dried,dull coloured branches (TC)blind + one line drawing. Fine liner (TP) try to capture as much detail as I can. Fine liner (TP)
Try to draw out the wrinkled tracing paper to emphasis the outlines. (TP) Tea spill on tracing paper create wrinkles. I try to make it more visible by frottaging using blue colour pencil but unsuccessful (TP)
when milk meet honey. (TP) Dripped oat milk on glass cup. (TP)
I tried to imitate the texture of the water stain using salt? (TP) Water Stain formed on water tap. Paint Pen (TP)
oil pastel on tracing paper (TC) liner with brush tip (TP)
Colour pencil shred drawn with colour pencil. (TP) Left: a keyboard stand which i find the lines are interesting. (TP)
Right: handle of the closet, i find the reflection is special, since it consist with a lot of colours. (TC)
Left1:try to only draw out the highlight part.Paint pen (TP)
Left2: I cut the dirty/scratch part that i don’t want and it dry and shrink so it’s kind of special.Paint pen, dry pastel. (TP)
Right1:the more detailed version of that middle one. Colour pencil, dry colour pencil. (TC)
The surface of the cherry tomato and the tension of water create a special pattern. (TP) The bowl is green but when the cherry potato dip into the water it changes the colour of the water/bowl. I think i didn’t do well in this drawing. (TC)
A lemon slice dipped in tea, dried. Marker + detailed with liner (TC) Garlic. Colour pencil+tracing paper (TC)
Loewe commercial in its website (TC)
cross section of some vege(melon/gourd) (TC)
Reflection
Talking Colours: I found it hard to captured colour palettes/schemes in my daily life. It’s because usually only very pop colours will catch my attention and make me feel like I need to capture this. In daily object around me, few colours(scheme) that really amaze me. Usually, only earthy colours appeared in my daily object, whilst special colour combinations can’t be easily found. And due to the quarantine, i missed the chance to go to flower markets and fairs which special colour schemes will more likely to appear in these places. I found that most of the colours palettes I capture using the Pantone app are usually artificial stuff. For example, artworks, posters, cloths, and some of that has to be touch upped so that it feels like a polished colour palettes, which colours in the palettes are compliment each other, and feel like they are the perfect match. And colour palettes I got from photographies are usually been edited/filtered to make it feels like that. So I think it’s kind of difficult to be very sensitive to colour combinations in surroundings when they are not being touch-upped and still in the ‘half-perfect’ stage. Besides, colour always influence by lighting of the atmosphere. In my opinion, colours under rainy or cloudy days is not as stunning as in the sunny days and brighter atmosphere can bring out more colours.
Talking Patterns: I really enjoyed doing these way of seeing tasks because I really enjoy observing pattern hidden in our daily object. I have this habit of capturing patterns and colours with camera into my phone before this task , but I will never take it out and put it into further development. Another reason of that is I’m just too lazy to draw, so i just take a picture. So this unit is offering me a great opportunity to push me into making these observation into actual art/pattern that can be used in future print design. I think it’s really easy to find them in daily object. The most common method I used is to look closer. I got interesting pattern almost every time i look closer to an object. But when that’s a common approach, I think I might miss the patterns that appear when looking from far away. Which I think I should do more of a looking from far away drawing next time. And to go even further on close observation, I would like to observe object with microscope if I have the opportunity to do so. Overall, I think I can do better if i did further development to the finished drawings , for example making them into repeated pattern. Also I should try more liquid media, like acrylic or water colour. I’m just staying in my comfort zone of using hard pen/tips to draw because they are easier to control. Also i should try to capture moving object next time, since they are moving all the time so it might be interesting to see what I can get when an object is changing its form every second.
27th November 2020 @ 9:16 am
I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at your work; you are really skilled at drawing! You have experimented with a wide range of media and styles in a very effective way. I really love the way you have taken everyday objects and made them more interesting- for example, the tea stained lemon slice has created a lovely colour palette and is really unique. Another example of this is how you intentionally positioned the down jacket in an unusual form- I think it fits in well with the ‘ways of seeing’ brief. I also love the way you have drawn directly onto other objects, this adds another layer of depth and dimension to your drawings that make them really unique.
I think you have responded very successfully to the ‘talking colour’ task as your drawings are full of colours in all different media and approaches. I would love to see how you could take these drawings, or elements of them, to develop some patterns. You may find it useful to investigate to look at ‘patterndesigners’ and ‘patternity’ on Instagram for inspiration. You have really explored the ‘ways of seeing’ brief through interesting angles and perspectives. There are some great examples of looking close up on objects- such as the slice of lemon and close up of a tap. Maybe it would be interesting to explore a zoomed out perspective? For example, instead of focussing on one object and the close up details of it, try looking at a group of objects and how they fit together.