Colour Stripes

Looking back through photographs I had taken in the past, the 2 most striking ones were of a peacock at Heaton Park and cake from a Sydney bakery. Both have bold colour, but opposite moods. I decided to use the cake, as it shows a wider colour range and felt more exciting.

 

I enjoy mixing paint, and feel that I can create the tones needed to match a photograph, so from a colour point of view my stripes fulfil their purpose. However, Sally pointed out during a tutorial that another prupose of them was to see how blocks of colour sit next to each other; my stripes emulated the original ones I made before christmas as an exercise, and although they are detailed and proportional in terms of colour are dispersed and thin. So the photograph actually provides a better frame of reference for colour proportion. In future I will focus on the different purposes the stripe will have and create it accordingly.