Assignment Three – Colour Communication

Aim:

• To employ a process of evaluation and selection of your own work
• To demonstrate effective design, layout and presentation skills in the visual communication and presentation of your work.

Brief:

To use the work from Projects 1 and 2 to develop and create a beautifully presented colour resource book.

When considering how to present the work to its best, an A3 sketchbook was selected and as much of the work is in landscape, the sketchbook was converted from portrait to landscape orientation for ease of display.  A window was cut into the front cover to make the portfolio  more appealing from the outside and the cut out was made using watercolour paints and paper, overlaying one colour with another so the paints mix on the page. I have used wet on wet and clingfilm before to make an interesting background pattern and like the effect of the random mixing of colour as this can produce a lot of interesting patterns in the background.  A commentary booklet has been produced from the wordpress blog to be viewed alongside the folder to provide the background information and thought processes without cluttering up the portfolio pages.  As a starting point, I found the format for the portfolio worked well and for the future would chose a sketchbook with heavier weight paper and cover to make the portfolio more robust..  The folder feels that it might fall apart quite easily and may not be strong enough for review by more than a few people.

Most of the work from parts 1 and 2 have been included in the portfolio as this shows the progression of this unit.  A few examples in exercise 3.3 watercolour have been held back because of a recurring problem with dull/greying in the photographs of the colours in the glass. Each sample has been given a double page displaying the colour chips on the facing page.  I found using the colour chips very useful as this showed a harmony of colour which may not be obvious in the exercise sample.

A separate colour study has been included at the back of the folder as this investigation into the effect of colour mixing in thread is an area I am particularly interested in as it is an extension of the theme of restriction – minimising the number of threads required to achieve the desired effect – to evaluate whether the eye can mix the colours and gain a richer and more connected effect rather than using an exact colour match.