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There are many varieties of coral. The picture above shows Button Corals, luminescing at night. Their colours are vibrant and beautiful and present me with a wonderful range of colours to study.
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I cut several strips through the picture to find a colour range that appealed to me. I rejected my first 2 attempts.
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My final choice!
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I created papers in my colour range. I used stamps, sequin waste, sand, clingfilm and sgraffito to add texture and tone to them.
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I looked at the colour wheel that I had painted for the C&G Certificate. This was very precise and even. I thought that I would try a slightly different technique, mixing tints and shades directly on the paper, with rather mixed results. The colours fall effectively into 3 groups. Although the colours in the main picture are very bright, the hues in the strip appear more subdued, as reflected in the colours I have painted.
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For tints and shades, I mixed the Gouache paints on a palette, so there is no blurring of one colour into another. I used the same grouping as in the colour wheel. The colours have fallen into 3 sections naturally. The 4 on the left and 4 on the right are close in colour range. The middle 3 also work well together.
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Weaving the strips has created a peaceful and soft mix of colours. The colour combinations reflect tranquility and harmony.
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Here the strips show agitation and chaos, also disorder, leading to destruction.
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I have grouped the papers in various combinations, light to dark, warm to cool and by percentage of appearance in my chosen strip. It was quite tricky to make some decisions as to the order of the colours, mainly because the colours are so varied. I found that grouping by their appearance in the colour wheel was far more pleasing.
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I decided to look at the distribution of the colours in the original picture and loosely, they create a mosaic of colours. I cut up some coloured papers into tiles and overlapped them. Then I cut the shape into the clam shell outline.
I found the flowers and leaves in the garden. They reminded me to coral colours I was working with, so I pressed them and have added them to my sketchbook.
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One mosaic clam shell was not enough!
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Moving on from mosaics, I wanted to see what the colours looked like if overlaid with another colour. I have 11 colours and I wanted to create an imaginative design. I settled on the lower design.
I used transparent acetate sheets as the overlay in the primary colours of red, yellow and blue. Some samples are better than others.
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The red overlay is very dark and masks the lighter colours so that they are almost indistinguishable.
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The yellow overlay blends similar colour together. The effect is very pleasing.
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The blue overlay is very successful. All the hues complement each other. As blue is my favourite colour, I like this one the best!
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I have overlaid and overlapped the 3 acetate sheets, creating orange, green and purple.
When I created the designs I put the coloured papers into the design randomly, rather than creating 4 identical templates. I'm not sure if it would have been better to have had them all the same. However, I like the variation in colours that can be achieved with these overlays.
Formal presentation of Colour Study on A2 black mountboard.
