Talking Colour – Buildings in Watercolour

Talking Colour – Plant pot in Marker pen

Talking Colour – Mixed media collage of Details from David Bowie exhibition in the V&A Storehouse

Talking Colour – Mixed Media Collage, paint, pencil and pastel : plant in pot

Talking Colour – Watercolour, Pencil and Pastel of trees changing colour

Talking Colour – Mixed Media Collage of buildings

Talking Colour – Oil pastels and Watercolour pencils on black card of Flower

Talking Colour – Abstract mixed media piece based on bus/tube seats

Talking Colour – Abstract colours taken from bus and tube seats

Talking Colour – Mixed media piece based on buildings outside my window

Talking Colour – Oil pastels and Coloured Pencils on receipts based on fruit at Ridley Road Market

Talking Colour – Mixed media collage using magazines, oil pastels, pencils and markers of buildings on street in Hackney

Talking Colour Reflection –

We started this project visiting different areas of London, my groups area was Dalston and Hackney. We visited markets in Dalston which is where I got inspiration for some of my drawings. I was also inspired by the streets and buildings that were there. I experimented with quite abstract techniques for this project and used a lot of mark making too. I also took inspiration from the David Bowie exhibition in the V&A storehouse for one of the pieces and I enjoyed combining mediums in a more abstract approach for this piece’s background whilst also being able to illustrate a part of the exhibition in more detail. I enjoyed the challenge of choosing colours that work together and also enjoyed working in one block colour which I found interesting. Overall I am happy with these drawings however I think some of the drawings based on tube seats and some of the buildings are a bit too abstract and hard to tell what they are based on.

Talking Pattern – Mixed media piece based on Marks found on the floor

Talking Pattern – Mixed media Collage using scanned in fabric looking at leaves on the floor

Talking Pattern – Markers on Tracing paper

Talking Pattern – Abstract Collage using Watercolour pencils, markers and photos

Talking Pattern – Marker and collage

Talking Pattern – Layered collage piece, watercolour and watercolour pencil with cutout paper layered over. Based on Bug house sculpture near Uni

Talking Pattern – Abstract Sliced Oranges, Mixed media Collage

Talking pattern – Acrylic, Pencil and Marker flowers

Talking Pattern – Mixed media collage : ink, charcoal and card

Talking Pattern – Layering Tracing Paper with card

Talking Pattern Reflection –

For talking pattern I mostly used the same subjects as I did for talking colour. I used a lot of collage for these pieces and mixed media approaches. I enjoyed combining mediums and I mostly liked using paper and cutting out shapes to include in the collages. I also enjoyed experimenting with cutting out holes in paper to reveal another pattern below and I feel that this adds layers to the piece nicely. Although I like a few of the talking pattern results I think next time I could work on using some more mediums and focus more on creating some detailed patterns rather than them all being abstract and mark making focused.