I found it hard to think of myself in colour in a dispassionate manner. I am also trying to avoid just choosing colour groups which I enjoy using in my work or dress in etc.
What are my real colours?
So last week in my Taking Textiles Further Class, we spent a few minutes on the challenge of thinking about the other class members and what colour their 'aura' would be. Avoiding symbolic colours, the colours of their clothes, the colours which were being used in the pieces we are also making. Everyone made their own choices without reference to anyone else.
I have just blocked out the colours in a strip for each one of us.
When we meet this week I will lay out the colour charts and see if we can recognise each other in this form.
Who is who? or what personality would you ascribe to the colour strips below? I would be interested to know.
I know that this is only a very quick starting point and that we are all very complex, colours have different associations depending on many factors, including how we perceive them, let alone our culture, upbringing, etc. And we will be discussing some of these ideas and moving through a couple of other exercises to develop a deeper idea of our personal colours when we next get together.
A really interesting start and I am also ready to consider further my scheme for the portrait.
More to follow on this.
