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Theme: Colour portraits
Title: portrait 1
Technique: painting
Process: I took a picture of myself and used a temperature edit to get the colour blocking effect. I then used a pencil and traced the outlines, next I used acrylic paint to colour in the portrait. The colours used were purple, blue, red, yellow and green.On the colour wheel, blue, red and yellow are the primary colours. On the wheel, purple and yellow, red and green are complementary colours. Green and purple with an additional colour - orange, form triadic colours.
Reflection: I think this was the easiest colour portrait to do, all the colours work well together and the portrait does look quite realistic even though the colours aren't natural tones.
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Theme: Colour portraits
Title: portrait 2
Technique: collage
Process: This is an abstract colour portrait of myself. I used different coloured paper and looked at a photo of myself for reference. I cut up basic shapes to resemble my face shape and facial features, I kept it relatively minimalistic to create an abstract effect to it. The colours I used are purple, orange, green and red. Because I was making this collage abstract, I didn't want to use natural tones , so I chose other colours that were similar shades and tones. As well as that purple, orange and green form the triadic colours on the colour wheel.
Reflection: I think this is a very interesting collage and really goes well with the theme of colour portraits and does show what I learnt in class. As this was an abstract piece, I hope next time I can create a more realistic collage and see the difference.
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Theme: Colour portraits
Title: portrait 3
Technique: painting
Process: I traced a photo of myself, it was a very simple outline as I wanted to make this a minimalistic and abstract colour portrait. I then used paint and painted dots as a way to colour in the different parts of my portrait, from my face to my hair to my clothes. The colours I used were white, red, peach/brown and black, these colours can be seen as shades and tones of red.
Reflection: I think this is quite an interesting portrait, the colours I used were quite natural and don't particularly stand out. The portrait is realistic in a sense that I used the colours I saw on the image but is also abstract because its minimalistic, lacks details and isn't properly painted. I think this was an interesting technique and could be improved if I chosen more interesting colours that worked well and complimented one another more.
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Theme: Colour portraits
Title: portrait 4
Technique: painting
Process: Using the same image I used for portrait 1, I used a pencil and did a quick outline of my face, drawing little sections for the colour blocking. After the sketch was done, I painted each section a different colour. I chose to use the tones and shades of blue. The three colours I used to create the different shades and tones was blue, black and white. The shades show the shadows and the tones shows where the light hits my face.
Reflection: Focusing on one primary colour and mixing black or white to create a shade or tone that is perfect for the portrait was challenging, as sometimes the colours ended up being the same colour. However, it was great practice in seeing how much black or white needed to be mixed with the blue to create a certain shade or tone. I think the portrait turned out well, looks quite similar to the image itself.
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Theme: Colour portraits
Title: portrait 5
Technique: Drawing
Process: Using the same image I used from portrait 1 and 4, I traced the image on to a piece of paper and used a black pen to go over the pencil sketch to make the lines and portrait more prominent. Because the image I used was already colour blocked as I used a temperature filter to get the effect, I already knew what colours were to go in which sections. To get the different colours for the portrait, rather than painting it or colouring in, I used colour pencil shavings to create an abstract portrait. The coloured pencils used were blue, red and green which are complementary colours on the colour wheel.
Reflection: Because I used colour pencil shavings, they were quite hard to control therefore it was challenging to fill up all the white spaces and prevent the different coloured pencils shavings from mixing with one another. Because the pencil shavings are quite big or powdery, they were hard to keep inside the lines making the portrait look very abstract and more like a blob of different colours rather than a portrait. Luckily, some of the outlines can still be seen which makes it easier to tell what this image actually is. I think this was one of the most creative and unique portraits I attempted, if I were to do it again, I would try to make the pencil shavings smaller and glue them on to the paper to make it neater.
