Research led to visiting a Chinese supermarket, where by using photography, documentation of traditional Chinese colours and lanterns were collected to then further refer to.
From these observations it was noticed that red was a very common colour, as well as gold. This lead me to looking further into colour in Chinese culture From that it was found that colour in Chinese culture refers to the certain values that Chinese culture attaches to colours. Black, red, white and yellow are viewed as standard colours. Red symbolized good luck and happiness and the other colours correspond to the elements of water, fire, wood, metal and earth.
Research also involved looking at other Chinese style art, in which often showed black brush stokes, which steamed from Chinese calligraphy, this style of back brush strokes was something I indented to use within my posters.
For research, a variety of colours and textures were collected from magazines that were representative and celebratory of the event. This then led on to creating a collage which was then scanned in and converted into a digital piece.
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