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droplet

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short animation of the growth of a fetus

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This was probably one of my favourite scribbles from my first year and then I left it in my uni accommodation when I escaped up north before lockdown. Had to recreate it on photoshop but the texture and colours just aren’t the same. Miss you ‘sMARGAiD’ (and also Pangea obvs)

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‘Chromophobia’ notes - Chromophobia

‘If colour doesn’t matter, why does its abolition matter so much?’

‘Colour is regarded as alien and therefore dangerous … a secondary quality of experience.’

‘It [colour] had to be contained and subordinated - like a woman.’ - Charles Blanc

‘Colour as the language of nature.’ 

Go to PG25 for full quote: order of communication is sounds [speech], then cries and contours, then colour

‘Colour is a peculiar characteristic of lower forms of nature.’

‘Colour’s lowly place in the moral hierarchy of the universe.’

The use of colour and being a colourist means we have fallen from a place close to God [we are brought closer by science] and now we are below creatures and ornamentation and now we are inorganic like a rock P27

‘Colour which speaks to the senses rather than the mind is more external, hence, more secondary’ P28

Draw a line and take it for a walk - ‘disegno versus colore’ drawing versus colouring in

The repository of thought in art was line - Aristotle 

A painter is merely a grinder and mixer of multi coloured drugs - Plato

Drugs are associated with the distortion of form but also the intensification of colour

Given colour the power to overwhelm and annihilate 

Aldous Huxley - adam is innocent and experiences everything fo the first time ‘seeing-as-if-for-the-first-time’ ‘perceptual innocence of childhood’

Psychoanalyst Marion Milner ‘dark possibilities of colour counterpose the white light of consciousness - On Not Being Able to Paint 1971

If you dont have imagination your colour will never be beautiful - Gustave Moreau

His fall from grace is a fall into colour

WATCH Sam Fuller’s 1963 film Shock Corridor for use of colour to represent mental breaks and show psychotic episodes

Charles Edouard Jeanneret (aka Le Corbusier) Le Voyage de Orient - story of leaving and entering colour told like a dream

Hierarchy of colour - major, dynamic, or transitional - le Corbusier & Ozenfant:

Major - ochre yellows, reds, earths, white, black, ultramarine blue

Dynamic - disturbing elements, citron yellow, orange, vermillion, and other animated agitated colours

Transitional - the madders, emerald green and all the lakes

To achieve whiter than white colour must be added

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‘Chromophobia’ notes - Whitescapes

‘There is a kind of white that is not created by bleach but that itself is bleach.’

‘Civilisation began with ornamentation.’

Dan Flavin ‘tubes of white’ different shades and tones of white alongside colours of light

‘To mistake the colourful for the colourless or white is nothing new.’

Negative hallucination: (psychoanalysts) not perceiving the visible

White things give us an uncanny sense of coldness: white teeth, white marble, white fog

‘The ideal body: without flesh of any kind, old or young, beautiful or battered, scented or smelly; without movement, external or internal; without appetites.’

‘A model of what the body should look like from within … a vacant, hollow, whited chamber, scraped clean, cleared of any evidence of the grotesque embarrassments of an actual life.’

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A little exercise from a Skillshare class I’ve been taking [Fun With Colour: 5 Exercises for Picking Unique Colour Palettes]. I’ve always studied fine art but for some reason, I’ve never been shown palette making like this before; it is a lot better for digital work as a whole.