Third Project Brief: 'Colour & Harmony'

"Analytically speaking, colour and sound are similar to each other. Both have variations in hardness and softness, mood, texture, form as well as degrees of distortion. They may also be arranged to form patterns and on a more personal level, express emotions."

In all likelihood, I may have very well not consistently followed this concept (which I wrote myself). However, this project brief in particular opened me up to new opportunities and helped me developed an awareness of the benefits of aspiring to create art out of my own interests. It was at this point I would eventually decide to focus my artistic pursuits on the subject(s) of Fine Art.

For this brief, I explored the idea of understanding the structure of music (either accompanied with vocals or purely instrumental) and considering the conplimenting colours and possibly forms. This meant I also had to keep an open mind about the properties of colour and sound before applying them to a design.

Colour:

• Lines
• Shapes
• Rhythms
• Tones (or 'richness' of colour)
• Pitch

Sound:

• Texture
• Beat (use and variety in instruments)
• Tempo (speed)
• Mood
• Vocal
• Volume
• Distortion

Most notably, I attempted to understand the personal, emotional impact music had on myself and attempted to recreate it through appropriate, often abstract, use of colours.