Looking At Colour

   When talking to my tutor, I realised that I needed to start bringing colour into my work. Even though I found it useful in my design process to start producing patterns in black and white from the sketches I had drawn, if I didn’t start to use colour, it would becoming increasingly difficult to bring it into my work. 

   So…I had to start getting my head round colour, sounds simple, however I find it important to get a striking colour palette. As I said before, my inspiration for my palette is looking at Mary Katrantzou’s Autumn/Winter 2013 collection, the colours and lights when looking out the bus window and also from the magazine ‘Bloom’. 

Inspirational 'Bloom' image.

   With all of this in mind, I started to respond to a couple of pictures I had taken in and around Manchester. I took them in the dark so I could capture the silhouetted shapes of the city and also the colour of the light. Using water colour I started trying to capture the mysterious mood I wanted. Alongside I worked on Photoshop to pick out the colours for my palette. 

I've looked highly into colour trends for Autumn/Winter 2013 and it was interesting to see what's out and about. There is wide range of colour trends within one time, which I found really interesting, however I suppose, if there was just one set of colours to use, everything would look very bland...so thinking about, I'm not quite sure why I was so surprised! Anyway...I came across  the use of 'lilac blue', 'botanical darks' and 'warm reds'. There were many more, however these fit in with what I'm looking at. 

Lilac Blue

Botanical Darks

Warm Reds