Describe the visible
Name the colour relationship, composition or detail that matters to your question. Avoid turning appearance into an unsupported account of the working method.
LOOKING AT A REFERENCE
INDIA BEAUTY EDUCATOR RESOURCES / CBBEA reference is
a beginning.
Read what an image can show. Keep the intention, the creator and the limits of your interpretation beside it.
“What am I looking at?”
is a different question from
“What can I claim?”CBBE / AN ORIGINAL READING PROMPT
Locate the intention
Read the actual brief when it is available. If you do not know the creator’s intention, say so instead of inventing it from a finished image.
Keep the creator
Name the original source and contribution. A mood board or reference collection does not transfer the authorship of the images it brings together.
Name the limit
A photograph does not establish every stage, permission or approved outcome. Record the point that needs another source or a responsible person’s clarification.
PUT A QUESTION BESIDE THE REFERENCE
Less collecting.
More connecting.
Write why a reference belongs, which question it helps address and what remains outside its frame. A short purposeful note can be more useful than an unexplained folder of images.
Read colour in contextOpen your observation brief