POETIC COLOR

Drawing II-­‐ OLIVER Assignment 7
(Due: Monday, 4/14)

POETIC/MYSTERIOUS COLOR

OBJECTIVES:

• Explore the possibilities of unusual/unexpected color in communicating psychological, emotional, or provocative interpretations of imagery
  
• Consider the connection between the artist’s conceptual meaning versus the
  viewer’s interpretation of the work 

MATERIALS:

• THREE or more images (black and white ONLY!!). These can be
  images you took, drew, or appropriated from another source. Keep the images relatively simple. 
• You will ULTIMATELY be creating a collage or composite of multiple black & white images that you will then ADD COLOR to. We are beginning in black and white so you forcibly look at each element in terms of value, texture, and line, and you are NOT influenced by "colors that SHOULD be there".  Once your composition is mapped out, step back and think about what colors you want to use and WHY. You need to have an idea of how you will use color to manipulate the psychology of the overall piece. 
• You will be making your final drawing on any color sheet of  Art Spectrum Colourfix Coated Pastel Paper (19.5 x 27.5)
  
• Color choice OPEN, but you MUST include oil pastel!
  
  

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER:

• Does this depict a personal feeling/ state-of-being or does it read as more objective
  (about someone else, friend, family, stranger, society etc.)?
  
• Are you using CLICHÉ imagery or color? Is this purposeful and how does this influence read?
  
• Do you genuinely care about or feel interested in your ideas?
  
• Is this an image that will clearly be read as “unusual/unexpected” color?
  
• What are the “expected colors” for this image? Are there several ways that
  changing the color will affect the concept of the image?
  
• Do you care whether or not the viewer understands your concept? (You
  do not have to say yes!)
  
• Do you have a clear idea of what the change of color means to you? 
  

Stripes Narative (Adson)

For my drawing I had no real direction at first, I just placed pieces together to see what would happen. By the end of the drawing I had an idea of a story about separation.
The two people had so much differences between them, they where like yin and yang. Too different to stay together, but they couldn't be apart. Eventually, the gap between them was too much and they went their separate ways. One leading off to a path of adventure and the other to a stable life. Both are decaying and fading, just like their memories of each other.

Stripes Narrative (GilbertoHernandez)

I had the narrative of the sister's of fate (from the animated movie of Hercules) in mind while working on this piece. The color of a bright orange really shows the contrast of lights and darks creating ominous effects regarding the the figures. I placed all the sister's on one side in trying to create a mischievous effect, with the other side covered in darkness.

Stripes Narrative - Sullivan

The narrative I created around my deconstructed still life began with character. Each figure that I drew seemed to have a distinct personality. I began the composition with the bottom left figure, whose cheerful stripes, fuzzy scarf, and lack of hood suggested a happy-go-lucky, innocent personality. From there I added the somber, ethereal figure in white (although this figure had polka dots in reality, I deliberately omitted them) and last, the massive, imposing figure on the left. All three are looking inward, confronting each other. This is a representation of a struggle between good and evil forces; the two figures on the left are in opposition to the supernaturally large and powerful figure on the right. There is a sense of humor to this struggle, though—the scarf-wearing figure is an irreverent, goofy hero, while the looming figure on the right may be evil, but also is wearing tropical print robes.

stripes

My figures are ghosts of a bombed out village. They are looking for something that they can never find because it isn't there anymore.

Stripes Narrative (Dixon)

What I had imagined while working was that the figure I was creating was of something like an angel of death. I pictured this creature as being immensely beautiful, but also being feared by everyone because of its job as a reaper of sorts. It comes to those about to die and at first seems to be a wonderful dream, but quickly the person about to die realizes the real reason for the creature's appearance: taking them from the world of the living. 

Temps fugit

The story I engender to tell is about the the parts of time that follow all of us. Our past, present, and future, and how are attention to each one individually effects their strength in our lives.
   For some, the past is what they hold closest, those events that made them happy, sad, or that they regretted. 
   For others it is the present, the Here and now with no care about the consequences that where caused or the future consequences yet to come.
   And then the third, the future, holds so much possibility, so much promise, that they can only think of how to get to what the imagine.