Leutton Postle Brief

 I started a new live brief for the last week an a half. The Leutton Postle brief is aimed at knitters as it is a knit design company but I thought I would use it as a starting point for a drawing and colour project. After the colour workshop I realised I really enjoyed putting a pallet together so want to develop this as a skill.
The Leutton Postle brief gives the the following as inspirational key words

• Tribal Dress
• Child Like Drawing
• Traditional Craft Techniques
• Found Objects

So I went to the Manchester Museum to gather visual information. There is a great collection of artifacts and objects from native and indigenous people found all over the world, past and present. As I began photographing I realised that all four of the inspirational key words could be applied to what was on display.

Even childlike drawings as the Egyptian hieroglyphics where made before perspective was discovered in drawing, so are reminiscent of those of a child.

I had a go at doing my mood boards on Photoshop but the overall feel is quite dark. This is because my photos are quite dark and the selection tool takes the exact colour from the image, not the colour that I know the object it. So I'm going to do them again physically and select the actual colours that I know the objects are.