Talking colour
reflection
For this tasks, I found that seeing patterns and talking colour helped me come out of my comfort zone because of the use of colour. It has also shown me that everyday objects can be used to make a pattern on a number of different items.
While looking back at my drawing I realised that the majority of my drawings are of nature and people, not so many of them are objects.
In the beginning, I struggled with using colours as it is not what I’m used to.
Most of the drawings are in the style of line drawing as that is what I’m comfortable with. However, through this project I wanted to work on trying to move away from line drawing by using different techniques, different mediums and exaggerating the colour of the subject or object I am drawing.
I have experimented with digital drawing, pencils, oil pastels and markers.
My favourite technique was digital drawing as I feel that there was a lot I could do with the media and a lot I could experiment with as the are many different types of brushes and colours.
I especially enjoyed making digital patterns. I learnt how to make a pattern from ordinary items and how to make ordinary items look more interesting. I have done this in the pattern of the flowers, where I have drawn a simple flower from a garden and copied and pasted it in different areas on the page and overlapped it with the same flower in a different colour.
If I could do this again I would experiment with more media such as collaging and painting
7th November 2022 @ 3:36 pm
Tiana Wright – The first thing that stands out to me is your unique digital drawings. You can see clearly that they are a strength of yours and I’m glad to see that you have embraced this strength. Your use of colours, blue, purple, browns gives a warming effect to your art work, making me feel comforted and calm. The use of felt pens is eye catching as the block colours dominate. You can see how you’ve started with a structure of line drawing for your base and worked on top with colour which is effective, giving the elements of texture and 3D. I love your portrait with pencil and fine liner as its shade and highlights is strong as well as your use of tonal work. I would have enjoyed to see more of your pencil work as it has great depth. I can see that you have experimented the topic of colour, with the different techniques and colour palettes. The green, yellow, orange – earthy tones – work really well together, which I can see you’ve identified. Overall I have loved all Tiana Wrights’ drawings and expression through the use of colour. Next time I think to push possibly further out the comfort zone of analogous colour palettes, experiment with clashing colours and mixing media, creating new textures, levels and colours.