Zixin Ye

After the Talking colour task, I felt more confident and relaxed to doing this Task two – Talking patterns. For this time, I used three kinds of materials. Some of the pieces were still crated by oil pastel, which is a pretty good drawing material to display the texture well. Secondly, the acrylic maker is my all-time favourite. It can depict the outline of my drawing object clearly. There is no blurred and misty drawing outline and body for those drawings made by the acrylic marker. Also, watercolour has been used in this task as well. That was a material that I did not use in the last task. Watercolour is not very suited for making texture, so I created some texture and patterns by using the equipment. Painting a layer of watercolour first, and then applying a cling film. After the layer of watercolour is dried, take off the cling film. It will appear a fascinating effect like the pics above.

Since the beginning of this project, my district is in lockdown because of the Covid. So I only could explore something around me especially in my home. I found something very interesting around, that was something I hardly ever focused on before. Such as a frame with dried flowers inside, exploring from the fascinating tiles, pattern from a plate that I brought in Shanghai, and one of my favourite ‘Polly pocket’. Besides, this is a colour exploring project, So I used as many materials and techniques to draw as I can. Also, bright colour are used in most of the paintings in order to make them colourful. There was one material called acrylic marker that I haven’t used before. It is very interesting to use them. Moreover, I looked at some of the artists work. Two of the oil pastel paintings that I inspired by Japanese artist Kaneda Mio. In fact, in the pink one, I tried to use the elements from her painting. I didn’t reference any of the elements and colour from Kaneda’s work for the second painting. It is more like a derivative from the first one.