EXPLORATION OF SELECTED FROGS COLOUR PATTERNS IN PAINTING

📄 Project 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...