Colour Tips

 RED  

ASSOCIATED WITH: Danger, passion, energy, warmth, adventure, optimism.
BEST FOR: Dining rooms as it promotes sociable and lively feelings and stimulates the appetite.

PITFALLS: It can be overpowering and lead to headaches. Either vary the shade, paint one wall red, or use it for accessories only. Don't use in a baby's room.

PINK

ASSOCIATED WITH: Love

BEST FOR: Bedrooms as it can be peaceful and restful. A hot fuchsia can introduce passion

PITFALLS: Can be appear to be very girlie and sickly sweet. To counteract this, introduce hints of dark charcoal or black. 

ORANGE

ASSOCIATED WITH: Stability, reassurance, warmth, and is thought to aid digestion.

BEST FOR: Living and dining rooms.

PITFALLS: Might keep the occupant awake when used in the bathroom. it can make a room look smaller because it is an advancing colour, so make sure the room gets plenty of light.

GREEN

ASSOCIATED WITH: Nature and energy, calming and restful, balance (halfway between red and blue) security, stability.

BEST FOR: Bedrooms, bathrooms, studies.

PITFALLS: Can look cold and unwelcoming. make sure it doesn't look too chilly by choosing a blue with a warm undertone. 

BLUE:

ASSOCIATED WITH: Calming and smoothing; promotes intellectual thought; believed to keep hunger at bay;loyalty, serenity, authority, protection, contemplative, prevents nightmares.

BEST FOR: Bedrooms, bathrooms and studies.

PITFALLS: Can look cold and unwelcoming. make sure it doesn't look too cold by choosing a blue with warm undertone.

YELLOW

ASSOCIATED WITH: Sunshine and energy, stimulated the intellect.

BEST FOR: Kitchens, dining rooms or north-facing rooms

PITFALLS: Not very restful for a bedroom. Yellow is thought to enhance feelings of emotional distress. 

LILAC:

ASSOCIATED WITH: Spiritual matters - suggests the misty area between the sky and heaven, feminine.

BEST FOR: Bedrooms and bathrooms to create a stress free sanctuary.

PITFALLS: Can be insipid. liven it up with black or silver, or both.

PURPLE

ASSOCIATED WITH: Creativity, fertility, joy, but also magic, evil, death and sex.

BEST FOR: Bedrooms

PITFALLS: Can be over powering.

      BROWN

ASSOCIATED WITH: Security, stability and very practical

BEST FOR: Living rooms

PITFALLS: Introduce a livelier colour for mental stimulation such as green or blue.

BLACK

ASSOCIATED WITH: Death, eccentricity, drama. It's a non-colour that absorbs colour and reflects nothing back.

BEST FOR: Using in moderation. 

PITFALL: Depressing - think of all those angst-ridden teenage bedrooms. use it to temper the sweetness of other sugary colours such as pink, but don't use it as a base colour.

I  have done this to remind myself about the colours and the way they can effect peoples emotions, since I will have to consider this when it comes to my final piece for my William Morris and company project as I will be creating my own pattern withing my self portrait. As I am taking inspiration from Picasso focusing on his blue period i will especially be looking at dark and upsetting colours like , black, dark blue, red, etc. 

William Morris and Pablo Picasso.

For this new project i will be combining William Morris's style with Pablo Picasso's. we should of been going to London for primary reassure on William Morris and also Picasso.




Unfortunately the trip was canceled due to lack of money, and people wanting to go. This of course was disappointing to all of us in the class however it cannot be helped. Instead I will try to go to an Art exhibition that is exhibiting William Morris and/ or Picasso, if not then I will try and find an Art exhibition that relates to the artists such as portraits, and repeat patterns/ wall papers.
Hopefully for my final piece for this project I will be painting a self portrait in the same media that Picasso used and paint a pattern like William Morris but my own style but also incorporate it into the for ground as hair, facial features,etc. I will be researching my two chosen artists and creating a couple of mode boards with the artists pieces that inspire me the most from there collections, and experimenting with there styles and different media on A2 paper and in my sketch book before jumping straight into my final ideas.
When i first heard about this project I wasn't sure which artist to choose from however my tutor helped me decided on Picasso. at first I wasn't bothered about researching him and using his style however as I have done the research I have found that I really do find his work interesting, and different. This is why I am glad I decided to keep an open mind when starting this project, and look forward to going further into it.

Tour de France evaluation

Tour de France evaluation.

At the start of this project I had visited two art exhibitions that where based around the tour de France. The first was the Civic in Barnsley and the Millennium museum in Sheffield. I took many photographs to use within my work, as well as browsing the internet for ideas and inspiration. I also took my own bike apart and used the parts I thought looked interesting to me and drew from observation. At the bike show in the Civic I really enjoyed seeing all the different shapes and colours of the bikes and all the drawings/paintings framed on the walls. In the Millennium museum in Sheffield I rather liked the tour de France countdown clock and all the yellow shirts hung down the hallways from the ceiling however it wasn’t as big and spectacular Is I had hoped it would be, it sempt to only be that hall way and the clock. For my artist research I chose Bleck Le Rat, Miki de Goodaboom and Alister Colley. I found that I really enjoyed looking at Alister Colley’s work as I likes his simplistic, cartoon feel he gave when drawing the Yorkshire country side, I loved this so much I used his style in some of my work, and used this style for my etching print. I found I used Bleck’s style on my development sheet with the gargoyle creating a silhouette just like Bleck’s work and also used Miki de Goodaboom’s style within my sketch book on one of my pages. The techniques I have used within this project aren’t very new to me as I have used them previously in my first year. however I did prove to myself that I have gotten better at some style prints such as Lino and Screen print, however some I found that they weren’t my cup of tea, such as Etching and Collagraph as I couldn’t get the hang of putting the right amount of ink on, etc. because these prints were relatively familiar I thought I would experiment with my prints. For example one of my Lino prints I decided to print onto black card with white ink, and for another I stuck tissue paper down onto white cartridge paper and printed with black ink which I thought gave a really nice and fresh look to my prints. I also experimented with different fabrics and colours for my screen prints, and printed on parcel paper for my etching. I feel I managed my time really well which I feel really proud of as it is one of the first projects I have stayed on track with despite a few difficulty’s with my sketch book at the start. I must at mite at the start and most of the way through I wasn’t interested in the Tour de France, however I did manage to find things that related to the project that I was interested in, I feel a lot more confident about getting a new project now because this one has shown and proven to me that there’s always something you can find that you can get interested in and work with. It has also build my confidence up as I know I can do an acceptable amount of work within the set time. I feel most of my prints went rather well however I do feel I struggled and perhaps tried again on my etching however I did like the effect of the sides as it was felt in the acid over the weekend by mistake.

This year is the first year I have managed to create and use my blog, I felt this was very useful to look over my techniques and point out more easily where I went wrong and when things went right. At first I found my blog confusing and thought I was going to do terrible but after a while I got the hang of it and found that it isn’t as difficult as I thought. However I have just thought to spruce things up on my blog and to help me a little I could video my self-doing the practical work and explaining it as well as giving a quick rundown in bullet points under the video.

At first I thought the task of filling a full sketch book was pointless and daunting however I did relies once I got back to college that it came in useful for ideas and refreshing my memory with things.