Final Poster

This is my final poster. I quiet liked the work of Patrick Caulfield and decided to incorporate his style in my poster. His work is mostly made out of one or two colours so i decided i would use black and white. In Patrick Caulfields images you can also see that he draws the outline of things rather than colouring in the whole objects. Only some of the objects in his images are in colour so I decided that I only want to use the outline of my objects. I think my final poster turned out alright however if I might have included some more colours it would have made my poster look a bit more interesting.

The objects that I used in this poster are perfume bottles however I wanted the bottles to have simples shapes like bauhaus. So most of the bottles that I drew for this poster are made out out circles, squares lines etc.

Experiment with colour

This is an experiment where I decided to do to to try out some of the colours that might be useful. In this image I have made 5 boxes, each with a different colour. In all of those boxes I have put in a perfume bottle. The colours that I used for the perfume bottles are mostly different shades to the colour of the boxes.

Thumbnail Skecthes (Ideas)

I think that out of all the thumbnail sketches that i have sketches i liked number 2 and 3 the most because they work the best. The shapes and colours i would use in those images would really help to "hide" my objects so my final design will be number 2/3. Since both of these sketches are really similar I might also use ideas from both of the sketches and combine them.

History Of Camouflage

The word "Camouflage" comes from the French word "Camoufler", which means "to blind or veil". Camouflage is also sometimes called protective concealment. it means to hide an object/person/animal in order to conceal it from something or someone.

In the 1800's an American artist called Abbot Thayer made an observation about animals that later became very useful in moders camouflage. Abbot Thayer noticed that many animals went from dark, on the back to almost white on they bellies. An object that goes from dark to light makes it harder to see the object as one thing. Also it loses its 3D quality and looks flat.

Here are a couple of images painted by Abbot Thayer. where you can see that you have to look really hard to spot the things he has hidden in these two images. In one of them you can see a snake and the other one a peacock.

Comparison Michael Craig-Martin & Patrick Caulfield

These are another two images. One is by Patrick Caulfield and the other one is by Michael Craig-Martin. As you can see these two images have a lot of differences. Patrick Caulfield uses dull shades and only colouors one or two small objects in his images. Patrick Caulfield focuses more on the whole scene whereas Michael Craig-Martin uses bright unusuall colours and focuses more on the specific objects only. With Patrick Caulfield images you have to look very carefully to spot certain things whereas with Michael Craig-Martins images you can sort of see the objects straight away.

Research - Partick Caulfield

Here is another image by Patrick Caulfield. In this image you can see a window and a glass. everythgin is in colour apart from the glass. The window frames are cream coloured and the windows are light blue, however the glass has no colour. I think this might be because the glasss might be clear filled with water thats why there might not be any colour on it. In this image you can not see the whole window so another reason the glass might not have any colour might be because its the main object in this image.

Reasearch - Partick Caulfield

This is an image done by Patrick Caulfield. The image has a blue backgound (different shades of blue). The only colour you can see in this image is the phtoto thats is behind the aqarium. Also the fish in the aquarium are in colour. The rest of the image is just blue with black outlines to the objects. As your can see this image is probably a restaurant because you can see chairs, tables, lights, pans etc. Also you can see a man who is wearing a suit (might be the waiter). The light blue part in this image might be the sun coming in from the window. I think that this image might be a part of the building which you can see in the photo on the wall in the image.

Research - Michael Craig-Martin

Here are another two paintings by Michael Craig-Martin. These images are a bit different to the other images. In these images you can see that Michael also used typography. As you can see both picture have one background colour and the letters are also a single colour with a outline to them. The objects in those images are just outlines and are not in colour. Each image has three letters and three objects. The three letters are capital letters. Both images have one show and one umbrella however the third object is different. In one image there is a belt and in the other one there is a fire-extinguisher. In this image Michael didnt use too many bright colours.

Research -Michael Craig Martin

This is a painting by Michael Craig-Martin. As you can see this painting consists of normal every-day objects e.g. shoes, cassettes, fan, bucket etc. The colours used on this painting are very bright and are not the normal colours of those objects. Also some of those objects are drawn larger than they really are and some are drawn smaller than they really are. The whole painting is filled with objects and you can only see a little bit of a pink background. To me it looks like this painting might be based on a garage because it includes alot of tools, draws, chair, which most people might keel in their garage.

Introduction

For our summerbrief we were given a project on camouflage. We were asked to chose an object which is related to us and we have had 5 generations of.