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.

are coming soon.

It depends on how long they take to mark our journals for the assessment, you see.  

I have some fail negs but I don’t think they’re that exciting.  

but others turned out so interestingly well, so you’ll have to see.

Lately as part of our architecture course we’ve been undertaking different assigned art modules and we were the lucky 16 who landed pinhole photography first!

It’s spontaneity, unpredictable nature and the slowness (ISO 2-10) of the photographic paper is great.  To make one all we really had to do was make a light-proof box (i.e. 6mm boxboard painted black on the inside & duct tape edges) with a pinhole, usually made with a needle pushed through shim (aluminum can) & sanded around the edges.  

Superb photography and a great starting point if you have an enlarger/the equipment at home.  Just don’t make the hole too big or the depth of the box to long or otherwise you won’t be able to capture much (wide-angled ones tend to work better since aiming is hard enough as is).

I’ll post some positives up when I finish taking all my negs (we’re only doing black & white).

Yay!