SUAS Week 4 Results

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The Week 4 Results are up for the Stand Up and Scrap digital contest - and I must admit, I love just about all of them. Colours are a funny thing, though. As I went through the winner list, taking them into my inspiration file, most spoke to me - but of the three that perhaps didn't quite so much, I started analysing why and why not.

This must have been a very difficult theme to judge from any account. Colours are so - well - personal. To use one colour to show an emotion is fraught with some confidence that those judging the contest layout also share the same emotion with the colour chosen.

What I became aware of in my own analysis is that I don't personally like the colour brown - and it's layouts using brown which didn't float my own boat quite so much, no matter how many cute baby photos might be on it. But for other colours chosen, I also had to have the choices explained to me by reading the actual blurb given in the posting and credits of the layout. Often, for me, I wasn't quite sure what the colour should be construed as showing.

Colours like green and red have an easier interpretation, towards energy, nature, youth, or anger, high emotions for the later. But the orange layouts, which were quite striking - needed me to read the actual blurbs to work out the context. I am also not a high admirer of the colour pink - I'm not sure what it's meant to be saying to me personally, other than - hello, here's a girl baby - or this is a nice calm prison wall here. I rebel against pink, of course - it's the colour choice of my very girly daughter, and one I am for-ever forced to buy when looking for new clothers for her. I often buy from the boy's department just to avoid it, although she is now rebelling because she doesn't want to look like a boy.

If I'd had the inclination to enter the contest myself, my choice would have perhaps been green, to do with nature. The theme was meant to be towards your fondest memory, and conveying it with one colour. I mused over using a green landscape, full of tree ferns etc - and a memory of my home country of New Zealand, but basically I just saught after something "green" perhaps enhanced by the gloominess of such overcast clouded days that October is providing here in the U.K. currently.

The layouts chosen as winners in Week 4 are all worth congratulations - most are absolutely stunning, and many are different from what we've previously seen. Once again, go check those colours and layouts out.

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