Helen Moffatt

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I found Way of Seeing and Talking Pattern easier than Talking Colour. I think this is because I am further into the project and more confident. I also love playing around with lines and shapes regardless of colour, so it was more in my comfort zone! My favourite drawing from this task, and the one I can see the most potential in for design, is one of a building reflected in a grid of windows. I didn’t draw the window frames, and I only used thin black outlines to show what I could see on the glass, making the distorted reflections really abstract. After this, I shrunk the image (it was an A3 drawing, and after shrinking it fit 32 times onto A3) in photoshop then repeated it and re-drew it (traced the shrunk scan) over another drawing. Because of how tiny the scale is compared to the original, the shape that attention is drawn to changes from being the individual lines to being the whole section of what is repeated.

The Talking Colour task has encouraged me to draw with more of a variety of media than I normally would. I’ve also looked at a range of subjects, pushing myself to notice my surroundings more, which I feel will help me in future design process. For me, the most insightful piece of work I did was an acrylic painting of a door. When doing this, I not only focussed on the vivid blue, but also on the ways in which the bright sunlight changed the way we see the colour on different parts of the door, which reminded me of Josef Albers’ colour theory, and his statement that “in visual perception a colour is almost never seen as it really is”. This has made me curious as to how I can apply his colour theory to my ideas and designs in the future.