Mixed Media Studies
Colour and Surface Visual Library
Primary and Secondary Paint
Primary and Secondary Paint
In this sample I have used 2 primary colours in order to make a secondary colour by overlapping them. For purple, I mixed red and blue paint together and then painted the box above. To illustrate this, I painted a smaller red and blue box with a paint brush. I repeated the same process for the green and orange examples except I used the neccassary colours to create them, these can be seen next to them on the left.
Pencil Tone
To create these pencil samples, I used a simple shading effect with the left side of the pencil in order to cover more surface area. To create the fade from dark to lighter, I pressed heavily on the pencil then gradually applied less and less pressure until I appled barely any at all. This way a fairly easy process and I did not have much trouble.
Felt tip
In these samples I used differently colour felt tips and different techniques to make the samples appear as if they were fading. This worked quite well in the top 2 samples mainly because it is far easier to notice. In the first instance, I used 3 different shades of blue felt tip and drew out 6 rows of vertical lines. In the top 2 I used a darker blue with little spacing to make it feel darker. In the next 2 rows, I used a lighter blue that was thicker, this made it have a 'fade' effect similar to the pencil samples. The final 2 rows were done in an even lighter felt tip with less lines.
For the second green sample, I drew a zig zag type of shape in rows (even though it isn't clear). The reason I did this was an attempt to spread them out and gradually get lighter. I used 3 shades of green and the zig zag eventually got larger towards the top of the page.
My other samples cannot be seen well but I had to blend them in a similar way to how I blended the pencil. I used red orange and yellow felt tips for these samples. In the first one (on the left) I did a similar technique to my first pencil shading except I had to make it fade from yellow to orange to red. I did this by applying less and less pressure to the felt tip when I was drawing with it. The second sample didn't really work, I had to use magazine similar to my pencil study. The red is far bolder than the yellow and orange and I could improve this if I did it again.
Ink
My ink samples were all made using a paintbrush. I used a resistance technique for the first sample using oil pastels and ink. I did this by first applying some white oil pastel onto the page in a zig zag type of shape down the page. I then waited until it was dryer and painted over with ink using a paintbrush.
My second sample was done by fading the ink. To do this, I applied water to the paper first, then applied ink with more towards the top. This worked really well and the only time I had a problem with this was when I applied too much water.
The 3rd sample is a flat black ink sample, I applied the ink to the paper using a paintbrush.
The final 2 were actually created with sticks and ink, The first is dots that eventually fade and they were created by adding a lot of ink to the stick then dabbing it at the top. The further away from the top I dabbed, the less ink I applied. The final ink sample was created a similar way except instead of using a dabbing technique I created a zig zag pattern then let the ink run out. I copied this technique multiple times over so that the ink looks like it has faded.
Charcoal
My charcoal samples were created using my fingers. The background for them all was created by smudging the a flat grey charcoal background. I created 4 backgrounds for my different samples then for each I applied a different effect. For the first sample, I took a very thin part of a rubber then swiped from left to right, creating a very distorted zig zag. This effect worked very well and I would have liked to have used this more often. The second sample was a similar effect except I smudged the charcoal out of the background using my fingers in parallel lines. The next sample was created by using sticks and drawing with more charcoal in horizontal lines once the charcoal had dried. My final sample was simply the flat grey background.
Pencil Line
The first sample I created was the bottom right sample. It consisted of lines that I had to draw using freehand and as accurately straight down the page, It also had to have varying tone. I created this effect by taking pressure off my hand at particular points. This was the most difficult and time consuming sample I produced because of how much my accuracy suffered whenever relieving pressure.
The second sample was the top right sample. It was similar to the blue felt tip sample because I was trying to achieve the same fade effect whilst maintaining the rows of lines. I created this sample still using the tip of the pencil to draw to create the thin lines towards the end. The final 2 samples are curved samples and required me to move the pencil in similar ways of motion. The first is the bottom left sample. This was created by drawing lines that represented the last, all the way until the end of the page one after another. This became disfigured towards the end of the page and eventually looked nothing like the last. The Top left sample was created by curving a figure of 8 using the entirety of the page.
Oil Pastel Scratchings
All of my Oil pastel Scratching samples were created using a scratch technique. A colour was placed underneath another similar to my water colours samples. I then scratched through the surface of the first colour with a stick to reveal the second colour behind it. The colours for each sample are: Red/Yellow, Green/Blue, Blue/Purple, Yellow/Green. I then scratched in different patterns for each of them.
Pencil Shade
The second batch of Pencil Sketches were created by making patterns then fading them gradually down towards the bottom of the page. The samples use these different patterns: A gradual soft standard shade, Horizontal sets of diagonal lines, Continual scribble line, and finally a crosshatch. They were all made using the pencil and no rubber or erasing technique. I simply applied less pressure down towards the bottom of the page.
2 water colours with resistance techniques
The water colour resistance tehcniques were done using different resistance materials. The first used glue which was applied before hand, left to dry then painted over with a fade from yellow to red. The second was string that was placed but then removed once the paint had time to dry. The next was masking tape, the red to yellow fade was done from right to left and the masking tape remained on the sample because this simply looked nicer. The final sample was red to yellow water colour but went from the outskirts of the border to the center, the resistance technique I used with this sample was string which then stayed on the design.
Watercolour
My water colour samples Included 2 different variations. The first was to draw 8 different sections and then once it was dry, I used the same colour but more concentrated to paint vertical lines which all eventually connected. I found this study very effective and It looked very appealing. The 2nd water colour study was to blend yellow to blue, to red then finally to yellow again in 1 continuous line. I did this by using a paint brush to apply the different concentrations of paint to the study. In order to blend the colours together I applied water to the parts that needed blending as this mixed the colours whilst creating a blend effect simultaneously.
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