Clementine Woodard

For the second task, applying to the brief again, I wanted to focus more into the patterns and shapes and textures of what I saw around me. I wanted to have a more unconventional approach into this and I looked at shapes and colours and then made my own patterns from this. I used images from London on my phone as well as objects just from my room. I experimented with pens and crayons more and really enjoyed this way of working. i felt some of these pieces took less time and were very free and others were more accurate and precise as I created them. I also really zoomed into textures of items and things I saw such as everyday objects like the dots on my Bluetooth speaker and the patterns on clothing and more. I created my own way of seeing things and formed new designs out of them.

In the task talking colour, I wanted to use the brief to explore areas of London I hadn’t before. Therefore, I specifically chose Kew Gardens and Kensington Palace Gardens, areas of West London as my focus points. I found the process of taking photos very rewarding and I enjoyed sourcing tools and equipment to create these pieces of art. Not only this, but I also decided to incorporate my new knowledge from a lecture of colour palettes and use a limited palette with similar shades in each separate piece. This made the end result extremely satisfying to see the pieces as more of a collection together. I experimented with watercolour, pastels, pencil shading, newspaper, dissolvable fabric, fine liner pens and many more art tools to manipulate my pieces in the way I wanted. I found that I chose the type of style or pen/paint based on what I was drawing to capture it in its full essence. This has been a very enriching project.