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azziriaSaturday’s design workshop at college was a good laugh. First we spent some time looking at colour: colour wheel, contrasting and complementary colours, stuff like that. I’ve done a lot of this before, but hey, sitting around painting by numbers is wonderfully therapeutic and restful when you’re as busy as I am normally.
The rest of the day was spent experimenting with different media (paint, pastels, inks etc) and using different objects to print with and see what marks and textures we could make; we also used tissue paper and glue to build up layers and textures and look at different colour combinations. The idea is that we start to build up a collection of stuff that we can scan in and experiment with as part of our projects during the course.
I struggled a bit to get away from the red and white/gray/black theme that seems to be obsessing me a bit at the moment - in the end I decided that if that was what I needed to go with, it was probably best just to give in to it. However my task for this week and next weekend is to put together seven ‘rainbow sheets’ - seven abstract collages each made up of a different colour of the rainbow (paper, scraps of fabric, feathers, ribbon, sequins, etc etc) to provide more source material for my work. So that should go some way towards breaking the monochrome habit!
I’ve got my workbook started now. This is somewhere to put down ideas, samples, experiments, collages, anything really that could spark an idea or be used as source material for scanning. On Sunday I spent quite a bit of time re-creating some of the effects I’ve experimented with in Photoshop and making notes about how I achieved them, the idea being that I’ve got a record of the process to remind me when I want to do it again in the future. All these samples and notes need to go into the workbook, which the examiners look at as part of the assessment at the end of the course.
As you can probably tell, I’m really excited by all this!
The rest of the day was spent experimenting with different media (paint, pastels, inks etc) and using different objects to print with and see what marks and textures we could make; we also used tissue paper and glue to build up layers and textures and look at different colour combinations. The idea is that we start to build up a collection of stuff that we can scan in and experiment with as part of our projects during the course.
I struggled a bit to get away from the red and white/gray/black theme that seems to be obsessing me a bit at the moment - in the end I decided that if that was what I needed to go with, it was probably best just to give in to it. However my task for this week and next weekend is to put together seven ‘rainbow sheets’ - seven abstract collages each made up of a different colour of the rainbow (paper, scraps of fabric, feathers, ribbon, sequins, etc etc) to provide more source material for my work. So that should go some way towards breaking the monochrome habit!
I’ve got my workbook started now. This is somewhere to put down ideas, samples, experiments, collages, anything really that could spark an idea or be used as source material for scanning. On Sunday I spent quite a bit of time re-creating some of the effects I’ve experimented with in Photoshop and making notes about how I achieved them, the idea being that I’ve got a record of the process to remind me when I want to do it again in the future. All these samples and notes need to go into the workbook, which the examiners look at as part of the assessment at the end of the course.
As you can probably tell, I’m really excited by all this!
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Date: 2003-10-27 08:39 pm (UTC)