Navigation was taken in relation to the colour wheel, as a circular process which you could go 'backwards' and 'forwards' with no defined beginning or end. The atlas had one 'cover' on it, with its Pantone number 296 written in mirror-image to suggest that the other side of the 'cover' was the front.
Black ink, gouache paint on watercolour paper.
This was my introduction to gouache paints. I initially used the paint just as it came from the tube, but found this to be too dry for the purpose of this painting. Using it with water made it much more workable, ranging from opaque to a faint tint.
Tonal scales.
high/intermediate/low - major/minor
Balance.
Hume City Council.
The green decor moves the onlooker's eye around the buliding and upwards. [Part of the intention of this building's design was to encourage medium density bulidings of similar height in the area.]
Rhythm.
Albury Cultural Centre.
Harmony; a
Commonwealth Kiosk.
Having to make sure that it did not blatantly compete with both Government buildings and the waterfront in Canberrra, this design uses colour harmony in tube forms (which disperse light like a skylight) that contrast with the humble materiality of the facade seen in elevation.
OVERALL:
Atlas of Colour revived colour theory that I had first been taught in early highschool. It showcased architecture that uses colour effectively (which can at times be rare), as well as installation artworks by Janet Laurence. Further, the knowledge of colour theory can help to analyse what a building is trying to achieve with its use of colour and tone. Having only just been introduced to gouache paints, I still need to develop my skills with paint mediums in general, but there is still a noticable improvement in the use of the medium from the first painting (second image in portrait) to the Hume City Council building, where I have used tone in a more subtle manner to express changes in direction of elements and the related variances in light and shade.
