Exploration of Selected Frogs‟ Colour Patterns in Painting.
ABSTRACT
This thesis titled exploration in Painting using coloured patterns of selected frog specie, is an overview on pattern formation on frogs as a source of inspiration for contemporary painting. Over the years, artists have come up with various methods of expression.
Gardner (1980) points out that from pre-historic times to the present, mankind has been much involved with nature and its elements such as visual forms, shapes, patterns and images.
The exploration of the pattern formation and surface quality of frogs in painting as the subject of artistic contemplation is with the view of scrutinizing carefully the pattern formation of various frogs beyond its scientific appreciation as an amphibian.
This is with the desire to create images of artistic potentials derived from the pattern formation on the skin of frogs as a source of inspiration for exploration in painting.
The frog, as an element of nature from which the researcher draws his inspiration, is endowed with variety of interesting lines, forms, shapes, patterns and textures which have visual aesthetic values.
This study focused on the colour pattern formation on some selected specie of frogs for exploration in painting. A review of works and literature was undertaken to show and appreciate the contributions made by painters in the study of nature.
INTRODUCTION
Current trends in the field of art have gone beyond imagination in terms of the use of mediums, concepts and techniques. Painters are in constant search for new concepts through sources of inspiration.
Nature to some has been a source of inspiration. Also, textural qualities of forms like trees, rocks among others, serve as sources of inspiration to artists.
Patterns found on frogs alongside colours are elements that inspired this research. Mock (2013) pointed out that, frogs belong to a group of animals called the amphibians and can be found all over the world and in every climate except Antarctica.
They are both aquatic and terrestrial in nature, meaning they can be found on land and anybody of fresh water. Scientists believe that there are more than 4,000 different species of frogs.
Frogs are of different species and colours, spotting just about every colour in the rainbow, some are yellow, while others are either brown, red, orange, black or the combination of these colours, some even have the ability to camouflage and can change colour.
They are often patterned with bold stripes and spots. These bright colours serve as a warning to predators probably meaning: “Don’t eat me; I’m poisonous.”
The patterns on each species of frog, vary from one to the other. Some have no pattern at all and are just a solid colour and others have very cool markings, which form interesting aesthetic patterns.
The ability of the frogs to change their colour, like the chameleon, is as a result of light, temperature, humidity, or even mood.
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