Colour Portraits
| DVB102 | Week 5 (Images 16-20): Persuasive Posters | #oneperday2020 |
Using this portrait shot as reference;
I used Illustrator to create a four colour version for this week’s task. This week’s task was similar to the first of documenting time using traditional mediums as it was quite repetitive drawing the outline of the subject (my own face), however, I noticed that I got better at doing so throughout the week. I attempted to experiment with block colours across multiple mediums with this week’s task.
Portrait 1: I used acrylic paints in brown, light brown and black (the three colours from the four-colour image) on paper to create the first portrait. As this was the first portrait I wanted to use the same colours as the image.
Portrait 2: Continuing with paint, I decided to use watercolours on paper to create my second portrait. I chose analogous colours from blue to violet as I think these colours represent me well; blue for the darker area and violet for the lightest areas. Unfortunately, the blue watercolour paint I used was not as pigmented as the other colours I used and thus seemed lighter rather than darker. I also chose to adopt a looser style of watercolour painting to complement the selected colour palette.
Portrait 3: I began to experiment more with this portrait using a different form of collage. Utilising tracing paper as both the lightest colours and my portrait’s canvas, I used a light blue colour pencil to shade in the second darkest colour and cut out the areas that were supposed to be the darkest. I experimented with various textures in my environment including pavement and nature, however, I decided to use the texture of the blue wall as the portrait involved blue tints. Overall, I believe this portrait could have been achieved better if I had used a slightly darker blue colour pencil. Working with tracing paper was quite finnicky as well (as is evident from the many crinkles in the paper), but I liked the overall effect it provided.
Portrait 4: This portrait was perhaps the most experimental out of the five as I was working with botanical specimens including dried leaves and flowers. I like the overall effect that using dried leaves and flowers had, however, the process of constructing the portrait was difficult as moving a single leaf would move everything else and I was not able to create a successful outline of the face using only the dried leaves and flowers I had. Resultantly, this portrait was more abstract.
Portrait 5: I constructed the fifth portrait using collage. Surprisingly, creating this portrait was the most challenging. Once again, I used a very delicate material for the lightest areas of the face; pink tissue paper. This was not the wisest decision as I glued the other elements on top of the tissue paper, causing tears and wrinkling to occur (which I attempted to cover up using more tissue paper). I used craft paper for the two darkest colours. The colours used were tints and hues on the red colour spectrum and similar to the colours from the original four-colour image.
