Colour Project

For Summer we were given a very open brief - experiment with colour and how we might associate colour with emotion, and vice-versa. My outcome is a six-panel study of the colour grey in all its wonderful forms. I have tried to use a variety of brushstrokes and tones to build up layers of a colour that I feel reflects my experience of emotion and how I perceive them.

I've been told I come across to a lot of people as a very calm, matter-of-fact individual. When I was younger I would try and scowl people down, and earned a reputation for arrogant aloofness. Now that I smile more, people don't tend to make this association so much, but I still don't like my work to be particularly open or personal (with regard to my own experiences)

Having said that, I think this work reflects my personality a fair bit, and hopefully gets across my love for displaying the impassive face, the hint of something underneath, and my experience that emotion is so rarely experienced raw or in isolation.

We're back

I am a sad creature of habit and routine. So it's no surprise I love being back at Uni..

The past week and a half has been spent researching murals and much geometric abstraction. These are a few sketchbook pages - eventually I hope to form a composition combining the elements of grid structure, space and texture. Not entirely sure I'd ever want to put it on a wall though!

ngan sik

Been away for most of August - downsizing the family home and travelling by train in Switzerland (not related). But the colour project remains on track (I think) - whether I'll be able to demonstrate one coherent concept is another matter but I'm having fun painting in codes of grey. I'm quite looking forward to seeing what fellow classmates have produced - I'm hoping some others are braver than I and actually use some colour..

painting

studies for the 'colour project'. what a shame I seem to have taken a liking to grey.

heart

So we have a Summer Project to do based on colour and emotion. So I'm trying not to think about it and doodling in black ink instead.

Wabbit

Over the weekend I've been carving and printing this bunny rabbit - leaping joyously in his habitat. I'd never done woodblock printing before (I think it shows!) and found it most therapeutic and entirely engrossing.

Lonely me

I accept that I'll never be an amazing photographer - or a photographer for that matter. But it's still nice to be a part in the making of an image.