Exercise 2

Articulating your ideas

What approach to articulating or visualising ideas will work for you? Try an approach you’ve not used before.

• Try visualising your ideas through images or drawing only. How much visual information do you need to communicate your thinking? What images are important?

I think using the previous exercise where I made my image black and white, and looked more like it had been drawn or sketched was very interesting to me.

It’s amazing what a little bit of colour can do for the atmosphere of a piece of work.

• Try describing your ideas through written words. Think about which words are important. Can these words feed back into your ideas? 

To me colour is how you make things feel, so the light watercolour washes, the pastel colours made my original illustration, delicate, full of light, ethereal, gentle and calm feeling to it. This was all taken away in the drawing variation of the work, it had a completely different feel about it. It felt quite stormy and dreary, even windy, like a storm was brewing. It felt cold and damp and wet, the boat felt abandoned and alone.

• Try describing your ideas through spoken word or sound. How would you describe your ideas within a conversation? Are these different to your written or visual ideas? Use an audio recorder, perhaps on your mobile phone.

Her I am talking about the original painting

Here I am talking about the drawing variation.