Reflecting upon my previous work on inky/faded memories and skeletal stitches. I decided to look for more visual images to inform my drawings to create successful prints. So I decided to look in trend book Promistyl autumn/winter 2014.
And I particularly liked the image on the left with which looks like a building that is organically growing and distoring like a smoke cloud. I also enjoy using a pastle colour palette so I found it most suitable to use.
The development of the above piece was based on that image, it did not come out as I had imagined however I worked with what it came out like.
After I looked at creating those kinds of textures with different media.
I then looked at exploring the mircoscopic concept as I quite liked the marbled like image, so I tried out some marbling with a limited 5 oil paints. The browns and greens actually created quite a godo colour palette that links with my theme of decay.
The small sample to the left of it in green also reminds me of paisley print. I see these as successful inital samples as I think they will have more potenial on a larger piece of paper, so I will source out a bigger tray to marble in and then focus in on different sections and create more drawings.
I found that focusing on the marbling piece that I enjoyed doing created the drive and motivation I needed in the project as a good starting point to continue with. These pieces looked like cells in muscle in terms of shapes and the red colours, so this began my research focusing on cells. I have previously liked using cells as an inspiration, but never quite got to fully explore it, so I took this oppotunity to use this.
