I've decided just to have a quick look at some of my work with colour, just in case it looks substantially better. I painted some pieces in a normal copied way with gouache but didn't think it improved the pieces. I did end up with two techniques I liked though.


Here I used gouache almost as I normally would but didn't use the lines to contain myself, this led to giving the two figures a sort of aura. I thought this added a depth to my work which has largely been missing until now. Unfortunately for this piece I don't want there to be depth as the two characters aren't talking about anything particularly important or meaningful, they are just having a casual conversation. For this reason I don't think this piece reflects the content of the writing well enough to use.


For this picture I've just added some red gouache a t the bottom of the figures as they fade out. I think this could be particularly effective if refined a bit. I like this because the red has connotations of blood and violence, especially if you know who the characters are (Vincent and Jules for Pulp Fiction). This reminds you or makes you think that these two aren't normal people even though the dialogue is just a normal conversation. The only problem with this plan is that I need to put writing over their legs as they fade and with red there it might get to chaotic and become awkward to read.
Also I don't know if the rest of the group wants to do the whole booklet on black and white, which is an idea I asked to the members who were there at our last meeting. As I don't know what the others have done I don't know if all black and white would work or not.