Tunnel :D :D

My tunnel book was based on the interior space and logo of Thaina Box on Church street parramatta. The logo corresponds with my chosen colour scheme (blue and orange) although the interiors almost have nothing to do with them.

The menue and casual section of the resteraunt vaguely follow the blu-orange theme but the formal half changes. This part is upstairs and towards the back, and includes black walls with thin gold patterns. The furniture is a dark rich wood with dark red leather chairs. One wall is a mirror covered with bamboo sticks to give the illusion of a larger space as the resteraunt in extremely thin and long.

My tunnel is split into to halves. The smaller half is just a colour scheme, while the second larger half includes a slightly abstracted application of the scheme reflecting the interior space.

Luis Barragan Face Map

In this face map I tried to map Logic (blue) and Crativity (orange).
Since Barragan was an engineer before he was an architect, I decided to map his thoughts and how he expresses himself.

His mind is predominantly that of an engineer (hence the blue) and the highest concentration of blue is near his brain. His clothing and eyes are orange, as his clothing is an expression of his creativity and his eyes see things creatively. His lips are both blue and orange as they evenly express his ideas. his glasses and the rest of the space around him are grey as they frame his view of the world and his surrounding are grey as they are yet to expreience and be formed into his works.

I choose Luis Barragab's House and studio for my collage. I wanted to create somethign simple and effective to emphasise his sue of colour. For the plan (above) I made use of stepping stones to work my way through the rooms. My use of colour was simple and consistent with my choice of blue and orange. The stepping stones came from the idea of mosaic and peak in the garden - leading all focus to the outdoors.

For the cross section below I painted wach room rather than fill it in with paint or photoshop again to allude to the texture of the walls; then added greyscale/low saturated images ( furniture and empty frames) to exaggerate and further solidify that colour. I finally mirrored a tree to frame the cross section.

Natural Colour 2: Strawberry Poison Dart Frog

This random frog lol was an interesting combination of an orange red and a dark navy blue. A simple and striking combination of colour not so commonly found in our natural surroundings.

The image above represents the colout proprions of the Frog while the image below is another similar adaptation to a view of Barragan's house and studio.

Natural Colour 1: Strelitzia

I chose the Strelitzia due to its natural use of colour the bright yellow and orange in the flower itself with the blue, green and purple present in the stem. A perfect example of complimentary colour in nature.

I represented the colour proportion in the image above, relating it to a sunset. Both the natural landscape and the flower can be seen in the above image (hopefully :P)

The image below is an adaptation of this colour scheme to a veiw of Barragan's house and studio.

Colour Wheels

These are both my colour wheel and tonal variation of Blue. not an overly complicated exercise apart form trying to mix purple !!!!!! lol

Applied Colour Scheme

This is Gustavo R. Cristo House by Luis Barragan. Barragan's works appealed to me due to their simplicity and unique use of colour. Barragan employed a warm form of minimalism in his works; simple, not overly complicated and used solid colour against traditional white walls and blue and green natural surroundings.

I applied my colour scheme of Blue with its complimentary colour orange. I kept the colours simple and flat with a slight allusion to the texture of the rendered walls and the faults present in them. This rendering was aided by the idea of receeding colours used in the first activity.

Mountains

This is the final product of our mountain exercise in week one :D I Chose the colour blue and made two due to the uneven number of group members. The textures vary due to the different paints used - mine were done with acrylics ( haven't purchased gouache yet), so i had a more solid tonal variation. I like the contrast and division of colour; the warmth of red and the cool blues mix nicely towards the bottom, while the purples dominate the middle and upper layers.