COLOUR

This week we were thinking about COLOUR!

Our human rainbow was rather magnificent! It was a circle of brilliantly hued clothing choices! Sadly, I didn’t get a picture of this… but I did get one of my own human rainbow colour choices…

Creating our object rainbow was very satisfying. Arranging things in colour order soothes my arty soul. Although I lean towards the more bohemian way of making, I do have a strong sense of perfectionism, and colour ordering very much plays into that.

I really enjoyed the observational colour drawings. I specifically picked out materials I don’t usually use… and haven’t used for a long time. I dusted off my long-forgotten oil and chalk pastels, unpackagaed my shiny new promarkers, and brought my trusty coloured fineliners too! I wanted to challenged myself by bringing materials I don’t usually use into play, but I also brought those I’m more comfortable with to have a good balance between the familiar and the unfamiliar.

This was my first drawing. We stood next to the colour we had chosen to wear to begin with, and as my dress was green… I popped along to the green gradient of the table.
This is two drawings in one, both lasting 3minutes each. I started off with my promarkers, just attempting to block in the shapes in solid greens, and for the second 3minutes I did the same thing but using the looser chalk pastels.
It’s a fairly expressive drawing, and builds up a fairly good green colour palette.
I realise I draw quite slowly, so I will say this isn’t exactly by best work! I don’t always draw well under time pressures.

This second drawing is very still life-y! Each colour (the blue/greens, and the purples) is a different segment of the table, both upside down to each other.
I took my oil pastels out, and was transported back to my school art class days where I would render still life setups in smudgey colourful oil pastels… today made me remember how much I love it!
While my drawing style has moved on to a more illustrative patterned nature, I still have a love for looser expressive drawings, and I want to bring them back into my work more… especially in this oil pastel format. A re-kindled love indeed!

This third set of drawings was done after a short break in which we chatted with each other about the drawings we had done. I realised I wanted to go back to something a little familiar, and explore line work.
I challenged myself to draw an object in each colour within the time… and I succeeded!… mostly! I didn’t quite get to the black/white section of the table, but I did manage to get one in each bright colour!
This drawing is my favourite. I can see jewellery designs in there already, and my pattern brain is putting the shapes together into zendoodles… also, it’s a rainbow… and I’m a sucker for one of them!

Colour theory is something I want to dip into more, and I’m going to explore my own colour palette. There are many lessons I’ve taken away from today, but the main is to draw more! use fantastic colours! and then apply them to making things!

Tomorrow I plan to build a rough colour palette from the work I’ve done so far, contextualise it with the artists we talked about today in our workshop… and of course! I’ll pop back on here and reflect about what I learn!

I’m going to wander away and dream of colour… 

Chloe out.

Image Credits
Chloe Henderson