Assignment 3

In this assignment, the task was to use the work created in Projects 1 and 2 and create a colour resource book. The aim of the book was to get across everything I’ve learned during the exercises. The first thing I needed to do was to figure out how I was going to construct the layout of the book. Using a plain white background, I decided to use thick card to mount my work onto. I had to use the full A4 card in a landscape format because some of my work was as big as A4. I kept it simple and left plenty of space around each piece of work to allow the focus to stay on my work. I had to decide on what pieces to include in the colour resource book. Looking at the work I’ve done in this part of the course, I wanted to include it all as it shows my strengths and weaknesses. It was all a learning curve and I believe I have created some beautiful pieces of work. I presented it in order of how the exercises were given to me. The only pieces I didn’t include was 2 of the watercolour stripe designs because I felt the three that I’d selected were the best out of the 5 I had done.

Once I had figured out what work I was going to use and how I would present them, it was time to construct it all together. I had all the work stuck down and in order so I just had to decide on what text I would use to label it. I had to keep it simple to focus on the important parts so I used a website called DaFont which I used to use in my media classes in school. It’s a brilliant tool to create headings or titles. I chose a font that I liked and printed the titles of each exercise. Once they were printed, I decided to colour them in to represent the ‘colour’. The front page says ‘colour studies’ and I coloured them in a rainbow pattern. All the other titles were coloured in different shades of one colour. The last thing to do was to bind all the pages together. Carrying on with the simplicity, I use a holepunch to create holes down the left side and used ribbon from the translation through yarn exercise to tie it all together.

Overall, I am pleased with the outcome of this book. I have kept everything to a minimal to allow the focus to stay on the important parts. Using card was definitely the better option in comparison to paper as some of the work was heavy and paper wouldn’t be strong enough for it. I enjoyed creating this book because it pieces all my work together nice and neatly.

Written Reflection

This part of the course was really fun for me. I have never worked with gouache paint before, I had the option to when I was studying art in A-Level but I chose other options instead so it was something new for me to try. I went and bought a new box of gouache paint so that was exciting too. I worked with colour a lot when I was in school meaning that the gouache exercise and the watercolour exercise was fairly easy for me in terms of mixing colours. I will admit the gouache was slightly harder to get the right colour but once I got the hang of it, it became easier. Extending the 10cm sample to 20cm with the paint was probably the best part for me because I had fun doing it and the outcome was great.

The translation through yarn exercise was an interesting one because my nan had all the materials in the world so I could choose almost every colour within the chosen image. Yarn wraps were a new concept for me and I’d never done anything like that before but I felt like I had translate the colour well and used my resources effectively. I will definitely use yarn wraps in future projects as a way of extracting colour. The watercolour exercise was fun because like I said before, I’ve played around with it in the past. The collage exercise was another fun one to do but it was also a challenge. Creating the colour book was a really nice way to tie all my work together because, being a perfectionist, it was satisfying to have all my work neat and in order.

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Reflection

Demonstration of technical and visual skills:

– My use of materials, techniques and observational skills are definitely improving as I move on through the course however, I could have a wider variety of materials.

Quality of outcome:

– The content of my work is strong and detailed and the presentation of my work is clear and coherent.

Demonstration of creativity:

– I believe my personal voice is improving as well as my experimentation but my experimentation could be stronger.

Context:

– I reflect on my work in every exercise on my learning log but I know I need to be more critical when talking about my work. Researching is a strong point but I could expand my resources to books or something other than a website.