Talking Colour/Talking pattern: Yemisi Femi-Sunmaila
( Swan, Street view and Market View)
Inspired by the scenery from my neighbourhood, these responses included elements that attempted impressionistic drawing, using a combination of watercolours, acrylic paint, and marker pen.
(Jellyfish from the Tottenham Court Road Station Exhibition)
I used coloured pencil, oil pastel, marker pen, and different pencil shades to create an observational drawing that explores and combines three techniques: pencil shading, line drawing, and bold shading.
Initially, I made a watercolour painting of my guitar on white A3 paper. I thought it looked a bit plain and wanted a quicker way to cover the blank spaces, so I decided to glue brown tissue paper to the page and further emphasised some shapes and details with acrylic and marker for more depth and contrast.
(The Stratford Shoal)
This piece was made with snipped magazine pages, watercolour, and metallic acrylic. My choice of medium was meant to replicate the analogous shades of metallic sheets in the structure.
(The Arcelormittal Orbit)
I created a quick and abstract response using acrylic paint and fineliner, contrasting with the intricate structure of the subject.
(Horniman Museum Inspiration: Seashell and Beetle)
Using a combination of marker pen, oil pastel, and coloured pencil, I created a response with a quick sketch of the structure and more detailed texturing.
(King Cyprus sculpture from the British Museum)
Intrigued by the craftsmanship of the sculpture, I chose to mimic the carving using the sgraffito technique. This was my first attempt at the method, which involves layering colors and allowing each to dry before applying the next.Then carefully scraping the top layer to reveal the colour beneath
I liked the sgraffito process, so I recreated it for this drawing.
Overall, I experimented with a variety of approaches and techniques. I observed a lack of cohesiveness in areas such as selecting and combining colours, in the Impressionism and observational drawing and other compositional aspects I cannot quite identify yet. Also experimenting with different mediums wasn’t explored enough.These are aspects I plan to improve in future projects. Despite this, the simplicity and rawness of the outcomes successfully capture the essence of each subject
Pattern
4th November 2024 @ 10:16 pm
Hello, it’s great to see your work! They are so great.
I like the composition of your drawings and the use of colours, which make the drawings more vivid. At the same time, you also use a lot of different media and methods to express your works, such as the brown tissue paper added to the guitar or the magazine pages combined with the drawing, which make the whole work more interesting, which is worth learning.
In pattern, you changed some of the drawings in “talking colour”, such as making it repeat and symmetry to show a new pattern or you focus on a small part of the details from your drawings and made it into a pattern, which I think are very creative ideas.
Your use of colours makes me feel very comfortable. I would like to provide some suggestions that some drawings can try to use some bold colours to make the drawing have a strong contrast like the second painting in “talking pattern”, which may make the drawing look more attractive. Also, you tried to use different layers to show a painting but the method is the same. I think you can try to explore with different materials, such as using oil pastels or paper cutting to express it, which may have different effects.
I hope these suggestions can bring you some inspiration! Looking forward to seeing more of your wonderful works! Enjoy every moment of the creative process!
14th November 2024 @ 12:13 pm
I quite like your capture of jellyfish detail and see you use a variety of different media to express your work, I like two pieces about Sgraffito , and the way you experimented with Sgraffito process. The outcome came out quite nicely. The background colour variation works quite well with black.
I would like to suggest that you maybe try experimenting with colour papers and different kinds of texture paper, it might have some interesting outcome.