Context of Practice: COP3 Practical Ideas: COLOUR

Emotional colouring book – images to be coloured based upon the audiences emotion – where they pick the colour they think best represents that emotion.

Information book – investigation of colour (facts, famous quotes, drawings, applying and manipulating theory

- interactive artwork

- artwork based upon primary research (survey/study of LCA students)

“pick a colour” – project. Ask the audience to pick a colour and through picking that colour – be taken on a journey all about that particular colour. What colours go well with it. Where it originated. Special facts about the colour etc, famous artists quotes – colour and their associations. Change peoples minds about the colour and teach them something new?…all illustrated by me. A mini illustrated book for each.

A series of prints or an illustrated book – where subliminal messages using colour and association techniques are applied.…

-This all depends on the audience and subjectivity though. The background and influence of life on the viewer greatly affects what they associate with what colour and how my image can be read. Play with association and make it work no matter what the association.

Create a multi story book or sequence of prints – if red is the audiences favourite colour – red in the image becomes the “hero” of the story and they follow the red colour through the journey. If blue is the audiences favourite colour the audience follows the blue through a different story and so on. – expand and develop. Kind of how goosebumps stories work and interact with the audience.

Ask the audience to “pick a colour”. Depending on what colour they pick – their attention is drawn to this colour throughout the artwork and the story is told differently for that specific colour when focused on it. And by subliminally asking the audience to pick a specific colour – this action draws their attention to this colour within the images / my final pieces. Play with this notion – creating images that create certain emotions and use certain colour rules for that colour choice ( apply what I have found in my research to do this).

Colouring book – that somehow determines that persons mood depending on what colour or content to colour in relates to memories and emotional connections to colour. Like a journal / diary / artefact to colour in and hep remember the colours that shape us. Explore and develop further. Engages audience. Asks the audience questions like – what is the colour of your favourite jacket? And then they can find the colour and colour I in themselves. A record of their colour memories.

> Propose an app that then scans the coloured in image and depending on what colours used / what % of colour in the coloured in image – can determine what that persons mood is? Propose?

- colouring notebook for adults – cool idea: https://coloringnotebook.com/