Showing posts with label scavenger hunt. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 11 September 2013

'Scavenger Hunt' Sketchbook Work

The Scavenger Hunt project involved collecting images in our sketchbook. I tried to use lots of different media to do this. It was good to be able to experiment with different things without worrying too much about neatness and perfection.

I don't really like how this page has ended up because I think it looks quite messy and I don't like how the colours work together. But I like how the project has made me experiment with different things to what I would normally do. I think I need to worry less about things looking bad/ not perfect and just concentrate on developing my art and trying to improve.



I think that this page has come out better because although things are still overlapping the composition looks less hectic. Using a narrower colour palette also helps it to look less clashing, and I think the lilac and yellow work well together. I think I'm sometimes wary of using a lot of colours together because it sometimes ends up looking tacky. This is something I want to improve on.

Scavenger Hunt

For our second day at college we were set a one day project where we had to find different things and record them through drawing, photography, words and collecting. We had to collect:

  • A piece of type of lettering
  • A reflection or shadow
  • An interesting corner
  • Your lunch
  • A face
  • Something yellow
  • The name of a magazine or journal in the library that you find interesting and why
  • The name of a book found using keywords
I took 119 photos yesterday but here are the ones that don't suck too much.

 Something yellow + Lunch

 Something yellow + Lunch

An interesting corner

  My lunch

 Close-up of lunch

 Something yellow + lettering

 Something yellow + lettering

 The magazine I chose

 The book I found using the keywords 'Bill Viola'

 Another interesting corner

 Interesting corner

 Yellow stairs.

 Something yellow + A reflection

 A piece of lettering on the side of a building


I found a yellow house with a yellowish car while I was walking home

 A face

A shadow?

From this project I have learnt that I prefer photography because I find drawing more stressful ^^