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 'digital drawings'

Firstly I went on a walk around my area and was looking for surface inspiration, something different to my Fletcher and Moss garden photographs which I had been working from and I thought instead of photographing I would collect surface inspiration. This would be a different way for me to get visual surface inspiration and would challenge me as I have never thought about surface when collecting things before. 

My normal photographs of the collected things were not really showing surface to me, I wasn't inspired by them and then I thought of the Threshold technique on Photoshop and I loved the results:

                                    

The effect changed the 3D object to a flat surface image. This is the effect I like, that inspires me and also gives me development ideas: Can I do some screen printing? Would I find that I do enjoy screen printing to see the effect? Lightbox - pulling the marks out of the photograph.

The Threshold technique was so useful to me that I thought I would put some of my Fletcher and Moss photographs into it:

I have put this technique to good use this week and I can also keep on developing from it.

Mattie Iverson

Mattie Iverson is a artist who uses layering in her work, she layers and layers small paint compositions first of all and then they eventually grow into bigger ones. 

She also only uses a pallet knife, which intrigued me as I have never explored pallet knifes in my work before. 

I could see her paintings as wallpapers, with a modern rustic look.

Iverson has helped me gain some new surface inspiration, showing how even small drawings can be turned into a huge one off, individual piece. 

Mattie Iverson

Mattie Iverson Inspirational Drawings.

Here are my Mattie Iverson inspired drawings/prints. 

These drawings I have done from her inspiring me are some of my favourite ones, I think there really unique and individual, I can create a whole new surface within a surface.

I created these drawings by using my Fletcher Moss Garden photographs as a inspiration and using a single pallet knife dipping it in paint and printing with is as many times as possible before the paint ran out to get more stronger and weaker patterns from it.

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 I decided this week it was now time to start my bigger scale work because I do want to show that I am trying new ways of working. 

I also needed some new materials to draw with because in my tutorial I had only explored the squeegy, I came across Artists Sponges. They were different in sizes and had small and bigger holes in them so I picked some up and thought they would be really great for capturing all of the smaller details in the photographs but on a bigger scale. 

Here are the sponges and as you can see they all have different shapes and bubbles in them to create different effects on the page:

Thumbnail drawings:

Each sponge created a different mark and I thought the thumbnail method of showing this was really helpful as I could see what was happening with every sponge. I now felt confident 
to get into my bigger A2 drawings:

I have really enjoyed exploring with the sponges but still think I need to explore more in depth with them to show off their full potential. 

 I now know to draw for a purpose, not to just draw because I need more drawings, every drawing needs to have a purpose.  

Black & White

I have decided I want to really explore colour throughout the project, with doing colour palette research on the internet and also pulling colour pallets from my taken photographs. 

This is why I have started all my drawings in black and white, so I can really develop my colour throughout the project. I am doing this so I can find 2 perfect colour pallets for my final work, this is what I am aiming for to show diversity in my prints.  

I have taken a look at previous colour pallets research to help me get started:

Although this is previous colour pallet research that I have already seen colour pallets can be so different when being used for different things and I want/need all the help I can get to achieve the perfect 2 colour pallets.

Fletcher Moss Gardens

As Sally thought it would really help me, I took a visit to Fletcher Moss Gardens. It was really nice to have a little day out to a completely strange place and see all the different new surfaces and I loved taking photographs there:

I love every single photograph I have taken, their such good quality and I can really start to develop my drawings from them. 

Also whilst at the Gardens I had taken a A3 Sketchbook some black and white paint and a Squeegee one that people clean windows with, so I could make some surfaces whilst sat at the park looking at all the inspiration. 

Here are the examples of the surface drawings that I did, I really love them. Each one is so different showing the different qualities that the squeegy can make. 

Although I am wondering how to develop them further?