Day 28: Colour from Life

The world is full of colour relationships that already work: a market stall, a rusted door, a sunset over a car park. Sampling colours from your own photographs trains you to see colour in context and gives you palettes that feel lived-in rather than generated.

Objective. Observe and extract a palette from the real world.

Photograph a scene from your day, sample four or five colours from it, and use that palette for a poster about the place.

• The photograph must be your own
• Sample four or five colours
• Use only the sampled colours
• The photo itself does not need to appear on the poster

• A palette clearly derived from the photograph
• Thoughtful proportions
• A poster that evokes the place

Show the palette as a small strip on the poster, like a colour record.