Using digitally manipulated self- portrait photographs, these Second Year students developed a series of soft- medium drawings, which investigated the basic principles of colour theory – complimentary and contrasting colours. Particular emphasis was placed on the organisation of spatial information using these principles. An understanding of the differences between visual and spatial structures was established - as students transferred key information from their drawings to a rounded, three- dimensional surface. This culminated in an abstract, distorted rendering of the individual; which sought to unfamiliarise the familiar. Once these concepts had been recognised, students used painting as a way of investigating their subject matter; varying the liquidness of paint to flow and dissolve on the three-dimensional painting ground.