to emphasize the personal element to the portraits i tired to communicate the personalities and the atmosphere i encountered when meeting each elderly person be that through their facial expressions etc. however, i also thought i could add a specific colour that i felt resinated with their character and would also add to the overall visual interest of the piece.
initially i used colour in my development pieces as i liked the way it differentiated the portrait from the background and gave them a focus, however i didn't think about the added message i could be adding with a colour.
above i have played around with colours i thought represented hazel and the way she came across to me.
Hazel's colours - happy, positive, polite, gentle : yellows, oranges (hair was ginger tint) earthy green tones - nature.
Johns colours - vintage blues: young boy at heart, cheeky.
Jean and roland - it was hard to think of a overall colour to sum up both of them as they both had their own. so i instead took influence from the colours they have in their house and the clothes they were wearing when i met them.
changing type: i decided fairly late on to use hand written type to name the portraits. i made this decision as i felt that as the rest of my portraits are hand rendered (bar the added digital colour), even the text i have included is hand written, i felt using a digital text contradicted my whole aesthetic and looked out of place.
Finished Portraits
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