Intentions 2nd blog post
During this week I have developed the theme of my
inspiration in African history and artefacts; established a colour scheme and
started to produce samples.
I went to a Black History Month talk in the Central Library,
“How
Our Schools Fail Black Children… and what we can do about it”. The thing that caught my attention was the
video playing of children drawing. The
drawings of themselves, their parents and other figures were always white and
this reminded me of my childhood when I used to so the same, because people
with white skin were more looked up to in India than darker people. What interested me was that the presenter of
the video said that if a child draws a figure white, it shows that they want to
be white. However, now I am very proud
to be dark skinned.
Africa inspired me because I went to the Slavery Museum in
Liverpool and drew artefacts that I found fascinating. Recently I have also used a library book to get
more inspiration for the drawings (Danto, Gramly et al, 1989)
As Autumn is starting and I absolutely love the natural
colours - shades of yellow to brown, from light to dark green, the darkness of
the branches and the lightness of the sky - I have done a yarn wrap from a picture
I took in Alexandra Park recently.
The tutorial I had on the 2nd of October really
pushed me into action because I didn’t have a colour scheme and hadn’t started
on samples. I learnt that I don’t need
to make a sample looking exactly like my drawing, which was keeping me from
developing samples. As Mark explained it
to me, I can pick out a detail, a shape or a pattern and develop that into
samples. This helped me into sketching
ideas and producing the colour scheme. I
have started producing samples based on these ideas.
Danto, A, Gramly, R.M, Hultgren M.L, Schildkrout, E, and
Zeidler, J. (1989) ART/artifact. New York: the Center for African Art and Munich:
Prestel Verlag
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