Part Two: Project Three – Stage Four. Exercise 2.

For this exercise the supporting pair of opposite words are Violent/Gentle using the colours of apricot and violet/purple. The theme is one of ‘Domestic and Family violence – It is OK to say NO’

The symbol I use to represent this theme is a white ribbon pinned to the jacket collar or the breast of an over garment. In preference to using apricot as the supplementary colour for violet I will use its complement yellow. Although violet is named after the violet flower it is synonymous with a bluish purple common in the English language which is my preference because it is a mixture between red and blue – both primary colours. Using the darker shadowy colours of purple bring the stitching to life by working with its compliment or after image.

‘Like spectral colours, purple can be considered fully saturated in the sense that for any given point on the line of purples there is no colour more saturated than it’ www.wikipedia.org retrieved 6/10/2011.

 

 

 

 

 

For me purple has a richer sheen than violet and in art is the colour on the colour wheel between magenta and violet whereas in human colour psychology, purple is associated with royalty and nobility stemming from classical antiquity when Tyrian purple was only affordable to the elites. In parapsychology people with purple auras are said to have love of ritual and ceremony – I can relate to that being a Freemason and deeply impressed by the regalia worn by Freemasons the clergy the armed forces and the Order of St John.

When relationships go sour and break up because of irreconcilable differences it can said that they are having a purple day – when businesses display the laminated white ribbon in their windows, they’re saying that’s not acceptable – we want a violence free community and we want to be part of any campaign to stopping violence. www.sunjournal.com/franklin/story/1095203  retrieved 6/10/2011.

 

 

 

 

The continuation of a series of colours bags. Starting with carded wool which I will use in my needle felting experiments.

Ann Johnston (1999) makes the following comments about the colours I have chosen for this exercise:

‘Value is a word used in design vocabulary to indicate how much light is reflected to the viewers eye. Pure yellow is a light value and violet is a dark value. A yellow may have the same value as a light tan or light grey, and a violet may be the same value as green or a brown. If a dark colour is added to pure yellow, a different yellow is made which is darker in value that is it reflects less light. Violet can be made lighter in value by adding clear or white. One important aspect of value is what is relevant. A single colour value will appear lighter or darker, depending on what surrounds it.”