Photography by Sandra Howard
These images were shot in St. Jacobs Country, Ontario. My goal here focused on playing with a pre-determined colour scheme. I selected orange and purple in combination with black for each of the following three compositions. The sun was setting and I had to work fast to capture each of the unique perspectives while also finding appropriate subject matter to present my message.
Our eyes are our most magnificent tool. They give us the gift of sight. Sight allows us to see light. Light is simply waves moving at different frequencies which we interpret as colour. Colour can represent emotion affecting our mood and the way we interact and remember the environment around us. Colour is a universal language with no barriers. This project was completed with the help of Steve Pell. The purpose of this project was to create a promotion piece for a graphic design class. My many faces make up the two colour sets, CMYK and RGB.
At the age of 15 years old, I did these two pieces while experimenting with simple watercolour paints and complimentary colour schemes that I was learning about in my high school art classes. The first image of the rose was an original photograph that I shot in my mother’s backyard. When creating a painting of the photograph, I felt that using a cool/warm colour scheme would allow for the pop I was looking for. The second image was done after taking my first watercolour course at the Burlington Artist Gallery in Burlington, Ontario.
