Hafsa Patel – Talking colour

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inspired by Van Cleef and Arpels exhibition – using water colours for random drippings then cutting out card
water colour painting and outlined with black fine liner – Van Cleef and Arpels exhibition
collaging newspaper from transport then doing an emulsion print
drawing a telephone box – oil pastels then edited to black and white
inspired by a chair in the design museum – using brown recycled paper, acrylic paints and burning the paper
inspired by the different colour seats of the trains I take and newspaper bits from trains – using acrylic paints on a sponge, newspapers, an old book and, sewing using chain stitch around some bits
shape inspired by Van Cleef and Arpels ballerina brooch (showed in the design museum) – using recycled brown paper, flower petals, cartridge paper painted with coffee and burning paper
using acrylic paint and string, colours from a m&m packet
first drawn on the bus of a scrunched coke can then painted at home with acrylic paints
inspo from my sunset lamp, using water colour pencils on cartridge paper and sticking it on black card with white paint splatters

Reflection:

Some of my work over task 1 and 2 is inspired by public transportation because I use it more than ever than before; for example, image 6 is inspired by the seats of the trains I ride (Victoria line and the overground). For this I used a sponge for the acrylic and stuck on old book pieces and newspaper collected from trains to build the aesthetic. I also sewed the newspaper to give it a 3D look, which I was pleased with, but I feel didn’t go far enough in that I could have added more texture, such as replicating how the seats feel. 

Previously, I was always given a specific theme to develop my ideas from, but Talking Color was based on freedom of making art on surroundings, which I’m glad for because it got me out of my usual way of responding, such as not always using a fine liner or sticking to a single colour palette for all my drawings. Overall, this task taught me to pay more attention to my surroundings and how to use them to create art wherever I went, which changed my perspective on how I see my surroundings now. My own style is abstract, as evidenced by some of my work, so trying to refine colours and shapes of objects was especially difficult for me. However, in the future, I want to experiment with different media collaborations and see how they work together in order to further my work in a more textured way, because, while I am pleased with the work I have created, I wish I had been more experimental with my materials.

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