Studio - Green Composition - The World Today...

Green Composition, originally uploaded by James Wellock.

This composition first started off by me thinking what colour I would use to represent the world today. I went through various colours, red, blue, yellow, purple, orange but ended up at green. Personally to me it’s a colour great distress because I believe it to have both good and bad connotations.

In the composition above I've tried to create the conflicting nature of green, the very urban scene of skyscrapers and money is put to the background as we see a tree dying from what these tools of humanity have set upon the world. People don’t care any more. All they care about is themselves and money; as long as they’re alright the rest of the world can burn as far as they’re concerned. I don't understand how it can give people strong sensations of being natural and clean while also to others representing greed and dirtiness. I worked out that I don't know which side of green to be on yes it is natural but also it is rich and almost sickening.

Colour psychology states that green is calming and relaxing but while I was creating the composition I found my self feeling a bit unwell, which in turn started off a cracking headache. I think this was due to simply revolting toxic green being used, even to look at it for longer than 10 seconds hurts you eyes.