Project 30: Strange Food.

For the final project in this course I'm returning to some similar ground that has already been covered earlier on but this time you're asked to look at the process from a slightly different point of view.

Where as before I've look at changing the colours of a scene or object to reflect a different feeling or season in the case of assignment 1 here its more of an extreme shift in the stile of Fauves and the German Expressionist painters.

The kind of work I'm referring to is shown above with two examples, the first by Henri Matisse and the second by Maurice de Vlaminck what they look to do was show strong colours and painting stile over the more realistic values that impressionist painters of the time were using. In other words they didn't want to create a true representation of what they saw but give a more distorted abstract view by using what they saw as extreme colours at the time. For example Matisse use very livid reds and pinks for the areas which normally would be painted in shades of green.

For the first part of the project your asked to use some work provided for you in the form of a lizard image and a file containing a multi coloured area, basically what i need to do was combine the two to create the above image so that instead of the lizard being brown and grey to match its environment you now have an extreme shift in colour so that it becomes rainbow in appearance. A simple step to begin with next to give a little more meaning to the idea of an extreme change in colour I'm asked to look at food. Here you can effect the view most when altering the colour of say vegetables because we all have in built into use what colour an everyday item should be to be appealing the example given in the course is a fresh cut of meat, we know it should be red but if it has a slight green ting we know that you should eat it. This maybe isn't the best example because what I'm then as to create is something with strange colours not rotten.

Above is the end result of my work, i chose a bunch of carrots as my subject then using the Hue/Saturation controls i was able to make the alterations you see above by taking the orange of the carrots and making them more green in colour, and then the green tops and turning them purple. Both are really extremes from the original colours but not so much that you instinctively imagine them as appearing rotten.

A final enjoyable project more dew to the fact of looking at a different artist group to understand there use of colour in there work then on the actual practical application of the theory. Another idea to take into my final assignment though which is never a bad thing.