Talking Colours & Patterns

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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)
⬇︎Egg box,Eggs drew on Kraft paper, Egg box, Cardboard⬆︎
  • 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
Since I’m using french press to brew tea so I’m drawing it on tea related objects.
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)
Grapes’ vine drew on Kraft paper, Memo, normal drawing paper.
  • 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)
Colour pencil on black paper, Left one is drew on a more fine texture paper, Right on is drew on sketch book hard cover, so it got a dotted texture.
  • I tried to imitate the texture of the water stain using salt? (TP)
  • Water Stain formed on water tap. Paint Pen (TP)
back in my country, the stain doesn’t formed that easily, because we used sea water, not hard water(UK).but i find the pattern formed is really fascinating.
  • oil pastel on tracing paper (TC)
  • liner with brush tip (TP)
Down jacket in funny form. On the left hand side one, I try to focus on creating the puffiness(texture) of the down jacket. For the right hand one, I try to focus on the wrinkles(lines) created on the down jacket.
  • 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)
Different form of Lemon
  • 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)
interaction of cherry tomatoes and water. (I drew them poorly)
  • A lemon slice dipped in tea, dried. Marker + detailed with liner (TC)
  • Garlic. Colour pencil+tracing paper (TC)
Right: I like the contrast of the inner onion and outer colour, also the rod is standing out from the purple(though i didn’t draw it to make it feel that way). I used colour pencil and a layer of tracing paper since the colour or the outer part of the garlic has the same colour as the paper, so i didn’t know how to shade it, so i just cut out the shape from tracing paper so it can tells apart from paper. And i did a little bit shading on the tracing paper. 
  • Loewe commercial in its website (TC)
trying not to draw outline but in colour blocks
  • cross section of some vege(melon/gourd) (TC)
oil pastel + water colour paint in the middle (but the colour is too light–>failed)

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.

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