Colour

Within this workshop, we explored how colour, shade and combination influences how a piece of work makes us feel and how we can implement that to be able to lead the viewers eye and to evoke the emotions we want to represent.

After listening to a certain sound, I cut and placed paper in a way that would reflect what I'm hearing and visualising in my head.

    

 

For the first one, the sound was of crashing waves. It felt quite calm but the waves sounded like they were big and crashing against each other. I wanted the shapes to be curved and intersecting to get the effect of the waves merging into one and moving in unison. Using the palette of white blue and green was to relate to the calmness with these colours seeming cool and cold. I also only used half of the page to show that the landscape was in the middle of the ocean with the sky above it.

This time, the sound was the crackling of a forest fire. I imagined the flames being tall and big much like the trees so I wanted the strips of paper to resemble each other and to be linked by shape. I chose orange as the background in order to carry on the impression of flames further into the background and further back then the foreground of flames between the trees. With the brightness of the fire, I chose black to be a contrast against that as though they are being overshadowed by the flames and to make the fire the main element of the collage. I do like that the flames are not stuck down as this gives a 3D effect like they are jumping out of the paper which I think puts the viewer more in the centre of what is going on.

Whilst listening to the sound of a blustering gale, I imagined a snowy scene with wind blowing the snow around. In my mind I couldn't see many details because of the gale so I described the sound by using white paper across the page to reflect the wind intertwining. The scene I pictured is cold and dull so I chose a muted blue to show that.