Today we started studying our second of three modules for Art Workshop, a compulsory core subject for the degree I’m studying (BDesArch). It’s just a bit fantastic and quite relaxing. So far we’ve had Pinhole Photography, and now, we’re moving onto Colour Studies.
So what is Colour Studies?
Um, beats me, so far. The group before us ended up cellophaning windows, painting with food and collaging coloured materials.
Well today we had a brief intro into the concept of Colour Studies, including the idea that colour can be dangerous, which made me think - does that make us all endangered? I mean, just because something is unknown/subconscious doesn’t make it dangerous. It has the potential to be dangerous…ok I’m just going to stop now.
Perhaps I should be doing Psychology, haha.
Anyway, we ended up using gouaches in order to ‘experience colour’ & test our mixing abilities - i.e. we coloured in sheets of cartridge. It turned out to be a very relaxing exercise, though I chose one of the more obscure things to colour in, being a rabbit’s profile with it’s skeleton inside it.
I thought it was pretty cool - being pretty much like the one below:
I never thought of it as being macabre until a good friend pointed out that it looked like a rabbit halved. Hmm. I just coloured it in peaches, vermilion, a ‘permanent rose’ and other hues formed when mixed with primary yellow.
It’s pretty fun.
Only thing is that I think I’m falling sick, so I’ve been having this awful headaches for days on end & it’s not getting better, so I think I’ll be off to another early night in.
Sleeeeeep. Oh I need it.
